The most sinister places on the planet

"Mystical", or dark tourism is becoming in recent years more and more popular. In search of thrills people go to places with a "sinister" reputation – paranormal phenomena, ghosts and other mystical paraphernalia. Also known (Dracula's castle, NAPA valley) there are several places untrodden by the footsteps of the sonnet tourists.

Houska castle in the Czech Republic

Opens the list of the most sinister places on the planet, located in the Czech Republic, Houska castle. This castle is connected with many legends. It is a Gothic structure, built in the THIRTEENTH century, 200 years later, it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. However, it may be even more ancient in the NINTH century in its place stood a wooden Fort, named in honor of the owner's princely son Houska. Located 50 kilometers from Prague.

The main attraction of the castle, however, is hidden from the eyes of visitors. This "bottomless" pit, supposedly around him and built a castle. According to legend, people saw how it flew and the black creatures crawled strange beings – whether animals, or people.

It looks like a medieval fairy tale, the castle is really weird. It is unclear why it was built in the place – there were no settlements or trade routes that needed protecting. The castle does not have a kitchen. And during the restoration discovered that the tower (not preserved) was not facing outward, against the enemy, and inward, as if the enemy was inside. There is a legend that the construction set in order to lock the demons departing from the well – it was considered a gateway to hell.

The well was filled in, in its place was built a chapel. The entrance opened for tourists.

The "sacred wood" of Bomarzo in Italy

It's not really a forest, more a Park with sculptures. Their here 30, and they represent one of the most beautiful and mysterious places in Italy. It is also called "Garden of monsters".

Sculptures done in the Renaissance style in the style of mannerism. Its name they received because of the huge heads of medieval monsters, which were previously gazebos. There is also the sculpture, simulating "gates of Hell".

For the most part, to mysticism, this garden is irrelevant. It was built by the owner of the castle in Bomarshe Vicino Orsini for his wife. She never made it to the end of construction for 20 years. The garden itself is a classic of the Renaissance Park with bridges, waterfalls and gazebos. And the sculptures come across tourists strolling the winding paths. Monsters involve obstacles that are in love with the hero meets on the way to the lady of the heart, by analogy with the subjects of the novel "the agony of Love in a dream was Polifila". The garden of monsters was built in the late XVI century, but for visitors was opened only in 1954.

The killing fields in Cambodia

It is, in fact, a huge mass grave of Cambodians died at the hands of "red chemerow" - dictatorial power that dominated these lands in the second half of the last century. Nearby school Sleng genocide Museum, which served at that time and prison, and torture chamber.

The skulls of Cambodians there he built a Buddhist temple – it is just tourists. And local shops sell the "deadly" gifts.

Teak forest in South Africa

Passing teak wood, you might think that it is not crucified the man – it's all in red stains, and often bizarre. In fact, it is the resin that color – blood-brown, it is quite fluid, and therefore the impression. The tree itself is also reddish. If you get in teak wood, the picture is quite terrible – the blood-stained pillars of the trees. Such forests in southern Africa are not uncommon, and you can see them just passing by.

The silent cemetery in USA, Kansas

Well, what could be the graveyard, except as a silent? From there take the sounds?

It is a tourist lure. The cemetery is also called the Holy Ghost (with the Bolivian Sucre) or the Seventh gates of Hell (American Steel). Located along the Western highway 40.

Before Halloween and the day of the spring solstice it attracts lovers to tickle nerves from all around. Supposedly, it was at this time the devil himself comes out to take a walk.

According to legend, a witch Witte to give birth here the child from Satan, who comes twice a year to visit him. Supposedly there are paranormal things: you can stumble upon nowhere who took the steps leading down, to see a Ghost or even lose memory.

All these stories actively heated local, in order to attract tourists to its unremarkable town of Douglas, which is a cemetery. This area also served as a screenplay for filming mystical movies and TV series. In the screen, by the way, the cemetery looks much darker than in reality.

Forest Freetown in USA, Massachusetts

This forest, which is popularly called "cursed". Over him local have seen UFOs, mysterious animals and (where do without it?) ghosts. In this forest there are some ancient Indian tombs, also there are suicides and occult rituals.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»