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20 Architectural Scariest Places In The World

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20 Architectural Scariest Places In The World

1. Hanging Coffins of Sagada Philippines

 Hanging Coffins · Hanging Coffins of Sagada · Picture of hanging coffins in Sagada · Visit Sagada · Hanging Coffins of Sagada : A dying Igorot Tradition.

2. Haw Par Villa Singapore

Haw Par Villa, formerly known as Tiger Balm Gardens, was originally constructed in 1937 by “Tiger Balm King” Aw Boon Haw as a grand residence for his younger brother, Aw Boon Par.

3. Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital Beelitz Germany

Beelitz–Heilstätten, former TB clinic and sanatorium turned military hospital during the first and second world wars, and kept on as same afterwards by the victorious Russians. Hitler and Honecker were its most famous patients but there were plenty of others too. Where Beelitz–Heilstätten, 14547 Beelitz,Germany

4. Taylor Glacier Antarctica

The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about 54 kilometres long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range.

5. Capuchin Catacombs Palermo Sicily Italy

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.

6. Centralia Pennsylvania

Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to 63 by 1990, to only seven in 2013—a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.

7. Christ of the Abyss San Fruttuoso Italy

Christ of the Abyss is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ, the original of which is located in the Mediterranean Sea, off San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofino on the Italian Riviera.

8. Gomantong Caves Borneo Malaysia

The Gomantong Caves are an intricate cave system inside Gomantong Hill in Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia. The hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area.

9. The Great Blue Hole, Belize

The Great Blue Hole is a giant submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m across and 124 m deep.

10. Aokigahara Forest (aka Suicide Forest) Yamanashi Prefecture Japan

Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest on the northwestern flank of Japan’s Mount Fuji thriving on 30 square kilometers (12 square miles) of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE. The western edge of Aokigahara

11. The Island of the Dolls Xochimilco Mexico City Mexico

Just south of Mexico City, between the canals of Xochimico you can find a small island with a sad background which never intended to be a tourist destination – Discover the story behind the legend about the Island of the Dolls in Mexico.

12. Kawah Ijen Volcano Java Indonesia

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of composite volcanoes in the Banyuwangi Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometres wide.

13.  Hill of Crosses Lithuania

The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania.

14. Nagoro Japan

Nagoro is a slowly shrinking village located in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan. Populated by creepy dolls, it might make you question the reality. Its inhabitants left the village in a search of employment or died. Eleven years ago, Tsukimi Ayano returned home to Nagoro.

15. Pripyat Ukraine

Pripyat is a ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine-Belarus border. Named after the nearbyPripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, as the ninth nuclear city (a type of closed city) in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979

16. Sedlec Ossuary Kutná Hora Czech Republic

The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: Kostnice v Sedlci) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in theCzech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people

17. Snake Island São Paolo Brazil

Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, one of many Snake Islands around the world, is an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean. It is administered as part of the municipality of Peruíbe in the State of São Paulo.

18. Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Garden Parikkala Finland

Discover Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Garden in Parikkala, Finland: Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

19. North Yungas Road, Bolivia

The North Yungas Road is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometres northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named it as the “world’s most dangerous road”.

20. The Door to Hell Derweze Ahal Province Turkmenistan

The Darvaza gas crater known locally as the “Door to Hell” or ”Gates of Hell”, is a natural gas field inDerweze, Turkmenistan, that collapsed into an underground cavern, becoming a natural gas crater. Geologists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, and it has been burning continuously since 1971.

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