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We present to your attention a list of the ten most creepy places on planet Earth. It gives me chills at the thought of being alone with myself in any of them. But there is no need to be afraid. After all, no matter how scary they may seem, they are still part of our world. It is worth noting that we made some of them like this ourselves...

Poveglia, Italy

Poveglia - small island, located in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that in the middle of the 14th century, when a plague pandemic (Black Death) was raging in Europe, the island was used as a place of exile for the sick. It is believed that up to 160,000 people were buried there, whose souls allegedly still roam the island. The creepy reputation is also aggravated by the fact that from 1922 to 1968 there was a psychiatric hospital here, in which a certain doctor allegedly experimented on patients and later committed suicide.

In 2014, the Italian government announced an auction for the 99-year lease of Poveglia. Visits to the island are strictly limited.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The Hill of Crosses is a shrine, a place of pilgrimage, located 12 kilometers from the city of Siauliai, Lithuania. It is a small hill on which Lithuanian crosses are installed. The exact number of crucifixes is unknown, but it is estimated that there are about 50 thousand of them here. The Hill of Crosses, despite its external similarity, is not a cemetery. According to belief, good luck will follow the one who leaves the cross here.

Varosha, Cyprus

Varosha is a ghost quarter in the southern part of the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Before the Turkish invasion in 1974 it was modern and basic tourist center In Cyprus. Its inhabitants fled and never returned after the Turkish army invaded the island in response to the country's political upheaval. Entry to Varosha is prohibited for the general public.

Charleville Castle, Ireland

Charleville is a castle made in the Gothic style. Located in County Offaly, near the River Shannon in Ireland. The castle does not have a very good reputation and is famous for the ghosts that live in it. The most famous is the ghost of a girl named Harriet, who died here after accidentally falling down the stairs. Charleville Castle has been repeatedly explored by psychics, as well as groups involved in the study of paranormal phenomena.

Manchac Swamp, USA

The Manchac Swamp, or “Ghost Swamp” as they are also called, is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. According to legend, this place was cursed by a voodoo queen after she was captured at the beginning of the 20th century. Quite large alligators live here, and only occasionally the remains of bodies of slaves who once fled here in the hope of hiding from their owners emerge.

Shades Of Death Road, USA

Fifth place in the ranking of the ten creepiest places in the world is occupied by Shades Of Death Road - a seven-mile (11.2 km) road in the center of Warren County, New Jersey, USA. It is the subject of numerous local legends. The road has been linked to unsolved murders that have occurred in its vicinity, as well as ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Aokigahara forest, Japan

Aokigahara or "Suicide Forest" also known as Jukai is a very dense forest, with a total area of ​​35 square kilometers, located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji on Japanese island Honshu. Counts popular place for suicide, or rather, the second most popular in the world, after one of the most beautiful bridges - the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Every year, between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest. The leading methods of suicide are drug poisoning and hanging. Aokigahara Forest is also associated with Japanese mythology and is traditionally considered the habitat of demons and ghosts.

Catacombs of Paris, France

The Catacombs of Paris are a world-famous man-made network of winding tunnels beneath Paris. According to various estimates, their length varies from 187 to 300 kilometers. In essence, it is a huge underground cemetery containing the remains of about six million people. Currently considered a popular place among tourists, however, only 2 km of underground passages are open to them.

Island of the Dolls, Mexico

The Island of the Dolls is located about 18 km from Mexico City. Known primarily for old broken dolls that “decorate” tree branches. According to legend, this island is home to the ghost of a drowned girl who constantly appeared to the Mexican Julian Santana Barrera in the 1950s. Later, for unknown reasons, the man abandoned his family and went to live as a hermit on Mysterious Island. He claimed that he looked for dolls in landfills, fished them out of canals and hung them on trees to appease evil spirits, as well as to make peace with the ghost of a dead girl. He also stated that supposedly at night, the dolls come to life and walk around the island. Julian drowned in April 2001, his body was found in one of the canals on the island.

Our world is beautiful and amazing; a lifetime is not enough to see all the beauties of the planet. However, some people like to tickle their nerves and see something scary with their own eyes. Many believe in the supernatural and otherworldly, so they visit these creepy and dangerous places, shrouded in secrets.

Aptly named the “Gateway to Hell,” Turkmenistan's Darvaz is home to a fiery hole in the ground that has been burning continuously for over four decades, with no sign of stopping. It all started because of a worker mistake while exploring underground natural gas fields. In the end, they decided that it would be safer to burn the gas in 1971 rather than risk the people trying to get it. Darvaz is one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth.

Many years ago, hundreds of ships moored at this busy fishing port Aral Sea, but over time, the water receded by 4 meters, after Soviet engineers changed the direction of flow of the rivers feeding this large port

Every year, a real bird strike occurs in the Jatinga Valley, India. Migratory and local birds commit mass suicide here: just after sunset, hundreds of birds fall from the sky and crash to their death on trees and walls. Birds tend to be disorientated by the fog caused by monsoons. Birds are attracted to village lights and fly towards them, sometimes crashing into trees and walls along the way.

12. Ghost town - Oradour-sur-Glane, France

The village of Oradour turned into a ghost in 1944 - the Nazis shot and burned 642 of its residents (including children and women) in one day. First, they drove the men into barns and started shooting at their legs, immobilizing the people; the Nazis doused them with gasoline and burned them. The soldiers locked the women and children in the church. First, asphyxiating gas was released into the building, and then the church was set on fire.

To the west of the city of Cluj-Napoca there is an unusual forest - all the trees in it are twisted. An explanation for this phenomenon has not been found; other paranormal phenomena have been reported in the forest. A UFO was photographed here in 1968. I even call this place “ Bermuda triangle Romania”, people often disappear here.

He is called the most creepy castle Ireland. In the 16th century, it was home to the O'Carroll family, who fought with other Irish clans. The O'Carrolls often invited their enemies to dinner at the castle under the pretext of reconciliation, and then killed them right at the table. Under the dining hall there was a dungeon (“oubliette”), into which unsuspecting guests fell through a secret door in the floor of the hall. The bottom of the dungeon was strewn with sharp stakes, on which the victims fell. According to some reports, when the castle was restored after a fire in the 20s of the last century, workers found a huge amount of bones in the “oubliette” - it took three carts to clean out the dungeon.

Construction of these houses began in 1978, they were supposed to become an attraction for tourists. But construction stopped in 1980 when the company went bankrupt. During construction, several serious accidents and suicides occurred due to the supposedly disturbed spirit of the mythical Chinese dragon. As a result, the village was abandoned and soon became known as a ghost town.

Akodesseva is located in the capital of the Togolese Republic of Lomé - a strange and unexpectedly welcoming place, which is distinguished from ordinary markets only by its fetishistic afterlife assortment. Mountains of cattle skulls, dried heads of monkeys, buffalos and leopards, and even human bones lie in mountains here. The stalls of traditional healers and healers are popular at the market, where terminally ill people flock in lines.

Centralia was a thriving Pennsylvania mining town whose population dropped from 1,000 in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 10 in 2010. The reason for this is the seemingly harmless burning of garbage in a landfill in 1962. 5 firefighters were hired by the city authorities to burn down a garbage dump. They set fire to heaps of garbage and then extinguished them. Incompletely extinguished garbage sparked an underground fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it still burns to this day. Unbearably harmful fumes and toxic soil force people to leave the city.

The Island of the Dolls can be called one of the creepiest attractions in Mexico. It is located in one of the areas of Mexico City, which is called Xochimilco and is known throughout the world thanks to the ancient Aztec canals - chinampas, included in the World Heritage List. cultural heritage UNESCO. This island is located on one of them. They say that in the middle of the last century, a little girl drowned in a canal near the island, and soon after the accident, old broken dolls thrown into the canal began to swim up to the island. The hermit Don Julian Santana, who lived on the island, decided that this was a sign and began to catch dolls and then hang them on trees in order to protect themselves from evil and calm the spirit of the dead girl.

This island is located in the East China Sea, about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki. Before the island was settled at the beginning of the 19th century, due to the discovery of coal on it, it was just a fragment of rock. Thanks to the coal industry, the construction of houses for miners and their families began. The reef has become artificial island with a diameter of about one kilometer in perimeter, with a population of 5,300 people. By 1974, all residents left the island due to the drying up of minerals, and the city turned into a ghost town. Committee World Heritage UNESCO included this abandoned city on the World Heritage List

Once upon a time it was planned as an advanced city where representatives of the technical intelligentsia would live: engineers, scientists, researchers. It was built around the most modern nuclear power plant at that time. But a combination of circumstances led to the worst man-made disaster in history. There was an explosion at a nuclear power plant and the release of tons of radiation dust, contaminating the earth for many kilometers around.

On the island of Luzon, in the village of Sagada, there is one of the creepiest places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual funeral structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. That's why this place is called the Sagada Hanging Coffins. There is a belief among the indigenous population that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.

A quarantine station, a common grave for victims of the plague and, most recently, by historical standards, a refuge for the insane - the tiny island of Poveglia, hidden from view in the Venetian Lagoon. They say that the island appeared twice last refuge for thousands of patients during epidemics of the black plague, that its soil consists of 50% of the ashes of burnt corpses, that local fishermen avoid the island, afraid of discovering in their nets a catch of human bones polished by the waves, that in the 20s of the last century there were horrific experiments on mentally ill people that the chief doctor psychiatric hospital ultimately went mad from his deeds and committed suicide by jumping from the island's bell tower, and a very mystical version suggests that Poveglia is densely populated by the spirits of tortured victims.

Throughout the forest you can find signs with the words: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Please contact the police before you decide to die." Aokigahara Forest is located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, sacred to every Japanese, on the island of Honshu, and is considered a place where ghosts from all over Japan gather. Aokigahara is a popular suicide spot among residents of Tokyo and the surrounding area. Every year, between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest.

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Nazca is the name of a city and desert plateau in southern Peru. The tiny city with a population of 27 thousand people is constantly teeming with tourists. Some want to look at the mysterious drawings left on the dry desert soil, others want to visit the Chowchilla cemetery. Located in the suburbs of Nazca, this necropolis is literally open to visitors. Imagine large pits lined with sticks in which the dead sit. Amazing embalming technology preserved the bodies - at least the bones - in perfect order. Among the inhabitants of Chowchilla there are many who can boast of voluminous hairstyles - despite the fact that the last dead person was buried here 11 centuries ago.

The city on the banks of the river of the same name is located two kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Until April 27, 1986, it was a rapidly developing nuclear city, all of whose residents were somehow related to the nuclear power plant. Immediately after the terrible accident at the station, almost fifty thousand of its population was evacuated and the city turned into a monument. Or rather, to a memorial. So it stands empty for more than thirty years, becoming an eerie museum under open air. Residential buildings, a hospital, kindergartens and schools, playgrounds, a Ferris wheel - everything remains. And not a single soul.

Echo Valley in the Philippines is full of rocks. Coffins hang on them close to each other. Locals are convinced that the higher the body of the deceased is located, the faster he will be in heaven. Forcing them to bury bodies is useless. The tradition of burying the dead in the air has existed for more than two thousand years, and how and on what the coffins are attached, local residents They don’t tell you - it’s a secret.

There are many islands in the suburbs of Mexico City, the most famous of course being La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. In the fifties of the last century, a young man named Julian Barrera witnessed the death of a child, a girl, who drowned off this island. Barrera kept her doll for himself, and from that moment on, the spirit of the deceased began to appear to him. To appease the spirit, Julian began hanging old dolls found in trash heaps on the island. And in the end he settled on this island. In 2001, after his death (Barrera, like the same girl, drowned near the island), the business was continued by enthusiasts, his relatives. There are a lot of dolls here and together they look very creepy.

The real name of the mansion located in Transylvania is Bran, but it is known, of course, as the castle of Dracula, Count Vlad the Fourth, who received the nickname Impaler because of his love for impaling his subjects. The castle, built on the edge of an abyss, is a 100% embodiment of the Gothic style: gloomy decoration, howling sounds (the cause of which is the chimney, which begins to hum when strong wind). The main attraction of the castle is Dracula's bedroom with a huge bed; it was here, according to legend, that the owner preferred to drink the blood of his victims. The “house” looks very well maintained, for which thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, who invested in the reconstruction of the castle when he filmed his film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel there.

In the Czech village of Lukova, the Church of St. George (St. George) has stood since the 14th century. It was abandoned in 1968 after a fire started during a funeral service and the roof collapsed. Several years ago, sculptor Yakov Khadrava, preparing to submit his thesis, decided to turn the church into a site for his experiments. And he populated the empty building with human statues, whose heads were covered with veils. The spectacle is fascinating and scary. The teachers, by the way, were also impressed and accepted Yakov’s diploma - in such an original form.

The famous Mount Fuji is not only famous for itself: at its foot lies Aokigahara, a dense forest full of rocky caves. Aokigahara is incredibly quiet and very, very gloomy. Already in ancient times, the forest was considered the “residence” of monsters and ghosts. And it was here that residents brought and left their loved ones whom they could not feed - frail old people and children. Aokigahara's dark reputation attracts people who are inclined to take their own lives there. Over the past 60 years, the bodies of more than five hundred suicides have been found in the forest - in this sense, Aokigahara is second only to the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

It is not surprising that the “Suicide Forest” is filled to capacity with signs urging potential suicides to come to their senses. The Japanese believe that once you enter Aokigahara, you will never be able to leave it. Therefore, only rescuers looking for those who want to commit suicide and brave tourists visit it.

People were buried here for four centuries in a row, until the end of the 18th century. There was little space, a lot of bodies. As a result, more than 100,000 dead people found refuge in a small area. To ensure there was enough space for everyone, the old tombstones were covered with earth and new ones were placed immediately. Thus, 12 layers of graves were accumulated. Over time, some layers, due to the subsidence of the earth, came out into the light of day, running over later ones, and the cemetery began to look like a rush hour crowd on public transport.

Here it is, Southern American Gothic at its finest. The Manchac Swamp is located near New Orleans and is called nothing less than the swamp of ghosts. Slaves fled here from their masters, but none of them got out of here - they were all eaten by giant crocodiles. The spirits of the dead and those same crocodiles are the main ingredients in the eerie menu of Manchac, a place that attracts tourists so much. There are active excursions around the swamp, both during the day and at night.

Built in Portugal in the 16th century, the chapel is filled with the remains of monks: in total, more than five thousand people are buried there. Bones and skulls are everywhere, wherever you look. And the inscription on the roof of the building - “Better a death day than a birthday” - puts you in an optimistic mood.

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1. Island of the Dolls (Mexico City, Mexico)

According to legend, half a century ago a girl drowned here, and fisherman Julian Santana Barrera found a doll at the site of her death (they say it was his daughter). Julian decided that her soul now lived in the doll, picked up the toy and hung it on a tree. So the fisherman began collecting dolls from all over the area, moving to the island and leaving his family.

For tourists: You can stay overnight right in Julian’s hut; his 6-year-old daughter (a huge doll) will sleep on the bed next to you. But when dusk comes, no boat will be nearby, and you will be surrounded by thousands of doll eyes - you have yourself to blame.

2. Catacombs of the Capuchins (Palermo, Italy)

Burial for 8 thousand people. Philanthropists, local elite in the 18th–19th centuries. - everyone wanted to be buried here. Maupassant wrote: “Their (dead) heads are terrible, their mouths seem to be about to speak, and they all seem engulfed in inexpressible, inhuman horror.”

For tourists: You can visit this ominous place on any day except Sunday. Just don’t get lost in the museum, otherwise we know a story about a man who drank heavily and fell asleep there, who, after he was discovered, spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

3. Haw Par Villa Park (Singapore)

77 year old theme park Haw Par Villa is the complete opposite of Disneyland. How do you like the ten courts of hell? And this is just a way to teach morality to little children. Dismemberment - so that children do not cheat on the exam, and decapitation - so that they do not fool around with books. The place is worth it.

For tourists: Entrance is free, and not everything is so scary - there are also nice sculptures. But be prepared: Eastern mythology is very extraordinary.

4. Nagoro: the village where the big dolls live (Japan)

After the death of many of her neighbors, Ayano Tsukimi decided to make doll replicas of her fellow villagers. Eerie examples of their life are everywhere: fishermen on the banks of the river, students in school rooms, elderly couples on benches near their houses. There are about 350 dolls, but there are only 37 living inhabitants.

For tourists: if you're tired of noisy neighbors who are constantly drilling into something, this is just the perfect find! Welcome to the world of quiet, calm and harmless inhabitants who have only one small drawback - they are not entirely alive.

5. Hanging Coffins (Sagada, Philippines)

In this region, local residents bury their relatives in coffins, but not in the ground, but on a rock. To have the right to be buried in this way, several conditions must be met - to be married and have grandchildren. This tradition is already about 2000 years old: it is believed that the higher the coffin, the closer the soul of the deceased is to heaven

For tourists: If you decide to visit such an unusual cemetery in Sagada, be prepared for the fact that you will only be able to stay in a 2-star hotel, which may easily not have hot water and a shower. But don’t worry - there is a bucket of cold water from which to douse yourself in the cool mountain air, for everyone.

6. “Christ from the Abyss” (San Fruttuoso, Italy)

In 1954, Italian diver Duilio Marcante commissioned a sculpture at the site of the death of his friend, diver Dario Gonzatti, in order to perpetuate his memory. The height of the statue is about 2.5 meters. The result of the work evokes conflicting emotions. Algae and corrosion only enhance the effect.

For tourists: Whether you find the monument creepy or beautiful (or both), it's certainly worth taking the 55-foot dive for an absolutely unforgettable selfie.

7. Smoking ghost town of Centralia (USA)

The coal-rich city flourished until 1962, when a sudden fire occurred. Residents were not particularly worried until 10 years later when they began to fall into burning cracks in the asphalt. The government began evacuating mortally frightened people. And today the population of the city is 7 people.

For tourists: If you decide to visit the real Silent Hill, see the destroyed buildings, the collapsed and cracked sidewalk, the route of Route 61 filled with graffiti - do not forget for a minute why the city was empty (although the white smoke from underground will definitely remind you).

8. Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten (Germany)

The history of this hospital would be the envy of any horror film: a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, a hospital for the military, where Adolf Hitler was treated. Today several hospital wards

There are a lot of incredibly interesting, unusual and... Don’t forget about the mysterious, mystical, and sometimes downright creepy places, looking at which will take your breath away and fill you with sincere horror. It seems that these otherworldly landscapes have broken through to us from another world - a world of nightmares, monsters and ghosts. And despite the fact that most of the creepy places were created by nature, there are also areas that were created by the dark and scary hands of people themselves.

Below is a selection of photographs from the creepiest places on the planet.

The abandoned city of Pripyat, located in close proximity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an accident occurred in 1986, killing about 10,000 people from the effects of radiation exposure. Photo: Zoltan Balogh.
Inside an abandoned Gothic-style church in Gary, Indiana. Photo: Chris Arnold.
A vast desert of barren land in San Juan County, New Mexico. The entire desert is filled with surreal landscapes created by combinations of rock formations and fossils.
"Hell's Gate" is a natural gas outlet in Derweze, Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet geologists discovered a gas deposit. While drilling, scientists stumbled upon a void, which led to a collapse and the release of gas. To avoid poisoning people with natural gas, it was decided to set fire to the fault site. The burning was expected to stop in a few days, but the fire is still raging. Photo: Tormod Sandtorv
Valley of the Whales (Wadi al-Hitan) is a paleontological site where the remains of ancient whales were discovered. Fossils illustrate the evolutionary process and prove that whales originally lived on land. Photo: Roland Unger.
Death Valley is National Park in California, which is the hottest and driest place in North America.
If you are afraid of heights, then the Trolltunga rock in Norway would be almost the scariest place on the planet for you. It hangs horizontally at an altitude of more than 700 meters above Lake Ringedalsvatnet and offers an enchanting view of the Hardanger Valley. There are no protective fences on the rock. Photo: TerjeN
Desert National Park in Namibia, home to a 900-year-old forest of dead trees that once grew here. The trees do not decompose due to the too dry climate of the area. Photo: Ikiwaner.
Located north of the White Desert, Egypt's Black Desert is located near the Bahariya Oasis. The desert is known for its black sand and black volcanic rocks. Photo: RolandUnge.
Deer Cave in national park Malu is home to more than 3 million bats that live on the cave ceiling, at a height that in some places reaches 140 meters. The cave is located in Borneo, Malaysia. Photo: Robbie Shawn.
One of the darkest and mysterious cemeteries on the planet is located in Sheffield, UK. Almost all the graves in the cemetery are unmarked, and local residents say that ghosts wander here from time to time, explaining that in the 19th century the cemetery was the site of frequent grave robberies.
Hashima Island in Japan was inhabited from 1887 to 1974, when coal mining took place there, providing thousands of jobs. When the amount of coal in the deposit decreased, people began to simply abandon the island, resulting in it being completely abandoned. Photo: Yaves Marchand and Romain Meffrey.
The Hill of Crosses is a place of pilgrimage in northern Lithuania. Over the centuries, crosses, giant crucifixes, statues and thousands of tiny crosses have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but experts estimate that 10 years ago there were about 100,000 of them. Photo: Joe Klamer.
The metro of the American city of Cincinnati is one of the largest abandoned tunnels on the planet. Construction stopped in the late 1920s, before half of the 25-kilometer line was completed. The subway tunnel is located between the central business district of Cincinnati and the suburb of Norwood. Photo: Jonathan Warren
Boiling Lake is located in the Morne-Trois-Piton National Park in Dominica. Due to a crack in the earth's crust, endless streams of gas and steam burst out, causing endless boiling of water.
More than 50 large transport ports from the Second World War are buried under the water of Truk Lagoon. Many wrecks have cargo holds full of tanks, bulldozers, railroad cars, motorcycles, torpedoes, mines, weapons and human remains. Some divers have also reported seeing ghosts among the debris at the bottom of Truk Lagoon. Photo: Adam Horwood
A man walks past a wall of skulls and bones in the catacombs of Paris. The catacombs were used to store the remains of generations of Parisians in an attempt to cope with the overcrowding of Paris's cemeteries in the late 18th century. Photo: Boris Horvath
An abandoned amusement park near Berlin, Germany. The last visitors to the park were here 13 years ago, since then it has been empty, everything around is overgrown with trees and bushes, and this deserted place looks creepy and intimidating.
Caddo Lake is located on the border of Texas and Louisiana. This creepy place full of surreal strange plots. The lake is full of flooded trees and bushes that have been growing here for more than 400 years.
One of the caves on Phang Nga Island, which is simply teeming with bats hanging from the ceiling. Photo: Jerry Redfern
A chandelier made of bones hanging in the Sedlec crypt, Czech Republic. The crypt was built back in the 14th century, after which its walls were filled with the remains of 40 thousand people over 4 centuries.
The Crooked Forest Grove is located in northwestern Poland and is filled with hundreds of pine trees that have a strange 90-degree bend at their base. The grove was planted back in 1930. After several years of normal growth of the trees, they were pressed to the ground, using special equipment that kept the young trees close to the ground. After several years of this experiment, the trees were released and their pillars were irrevocably deformed.
An eerie, mysterious blood-red waterfall erupts from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. This waterfall resembles an endless stream of blood bursting out of the ground. In fact, this is water from underground lake, rich in iron. Photo: Peter Reisek.
Bran Castle, known as “Dracula's Castle,” stands among the Transylvanian mountains in Romania. This is just one of several places associated with the legend of Dracula, but it retains its mystique and attracts crowds of tourists every year. Photo: Sean Gallup.
Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave in Belize, famous for archaeological sites associated with the Mayan tribes. There are remains, ceramics and other household items here. The photograph shows the skeleton of a teenage girl, who, judging by the surroundings, was sacrificed.
A flock of vultures flies over the La Chureca landfill, the largest landfill in Central America, located in Managua, Nicaragua.
Beds and furniture were left in the psychiatric ward of the abandoned Poveglia Hospital in Venice, Italy. The entire island of Poveglia was formerly used as a quarantine for plague victims.
The Kaplica Czaszek Chapel in Czermna, Poland is decorated with 3 thousand human bones and skulls and another 20 thousand bone fragments lying below the chapel in the crypt.
Island of the Dolls, located in the Xochimilco canals south of Mexico City. It became home to hundreds of creepy dolls. The island's dolls are dedicated to the memory of a little girl who drowned in a canal many years ago.