Halloween is already far way behind, but terrible places in our world have not disappeared with it. All of them still tickle the nerves of horror stories and adrenaline lovers, wishing to see something from which any normal tourist gets away without looking back. Thus, here are the 5 most awful places in the world.
1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia
Mutter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipments and biological exhibits, situated in the oldest physicians popular training complex in North America. Most of all this museum is famous for its enormous collection of human skulls, collected here, and various unique exhibits, for example the corpse of a woman who turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. Here you can find Siamese twins with the combined liver, the skeleton-headed child and other gruesome exhibits with a freaky appearance.
2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
Much of the Japanese Navy is now on the bottom of a shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, located to the south-west of Hawaii. The blue depths investigated by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and littered with debris of warships and aircraft carriers sunk in 1944, became available to satisfy the interest of the divers. On the other hand some people are still afraid of the spirits of the crews, who have not left their military posts and are awaiting for the visits. Ships and airplanes have grown long into coral reefs, but until now more and more very curious tourists, who tuck their nose where they shouldn’t, are still becoming the victims of this places.
3. Magical Market Sonora in Mexico City, Mexico
Witches of Mexico, seated in cramped cubicles, might promise you quick relief from poverty and adultery for 10 bucks. Worn out exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds are hung on the cells and on the walls of the tents and are available for sale for a variety of possible usage. The market of Sonora is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from distant places to go for the fortune and the promise of a better life. This is a place where all the local population buys “supernatural” items, from potions to ancient Aztec recipes to the statues of Buddha. Hardcore enthusiasts, perhaps, will be able to buy here a little blood of rattlesnake or dried humming-birds to curtail luck. But visitors should remember that witchcraft in Mexico is not a joke: The National Association of witches was involved in the presidential elections, to use a spell, to make them honest and free.
4. Easter Island, Chile
One of the most mysterious places on the Earth is Easter Island, where there are huge, carved stone figures of giants, burrowing into the ground under the overcomes of millenniums. The statues are looking straight to the sky, as if they are guilty of some mystical crimes and somehow are still taking the blame for them. And only the stone giants know where are the people, who have once built them , actually if there are any! On Easter Island, there is nobody who knows the secret of building and movement, as well as the installation of these giant statues that rise up to 21 meters and weigh up to 90 tons. But they are often moved for more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked.
It is believed that once in a while the giant sculptures are switching their places and positions.
Well, except, of course, those who had read about Thor Heyerdahl journeys in childhood. For them, all these mysteries on how the statues were made and who placed them, are no longer a secret.
5. Manchac Swamp in Louisiana
Can you imagine yourself being in a boat with tourists floating in the swamps with a small lit lamp-fire surrounded by the ancient cypress trees in a foggy day. Isn’t this freaking you out? Especially if you are taking into account the long filaments of moss hang from the tree leaves. Howl, which can be heard far from the distance, may belong to rou-ga-rou – the Cajun version of werewolf who takes care of the swamp.
Manchac swamp is also known as “the ghost swamp” . This place is very popular as to be a ghost hotel. It is located near New Orleans, and this is just a ready tale for Goths. It is said that the swamp was cursed by the voodoo queen when she was taken as the prisoner in the beginning of XX century. It resulted in a hurricane in 1915 that vanished three villages on the place. The peace of this bird cemetery is disturbed by only occasionally corpse pop-ups – the legend of commercial natural having a history of 100 years. In addition, the alligators, which are more than corpses here, most likely will not lose the chance to eat some fresh tourist meat.
