The creepiest places on earth

The New Orleans Six Flags was opened in 2003. Two years later Hurricane Katrina struck and the park was mostly destroyed. Now littered with graffiti, whats the left of the park has fallen into disrepair. The wreck of this once merry place sits deserted.

The Skull Tower is a monument to 19th century Serbian rebels. It is situated in Niš, on the old Constantinople Road leading to Sofia. After the retreat of the Serbian rebel army, the Turkish commander of Niš, Hursid Pasha, ordered that the heads of the killed Serbs were to be mounted on a tower to serve as a warning to whoever opposed the Ottoman Empire. In all, 952 skulls were included, with the skull of Sinđelić placed at the top. The monument was built using the skulls of the Serbs killed, by order of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II during the 1809 Battle of Čegar.

Nestled in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada in a sagebrush-covered valley, Bodie is one of the most famous ghost towns in America. In the 1870s gold diggers thronged the town in hopes of turning up instant wealth, building many mines. By the 1940s the gold had been exhausted, the last mine closed, and the town was abandoned. When the California State Parks Department took over Bodie in 1962, it initiated a program of “arrested decay,” maintaining the dilapidated structures just as they appeared during the gold rush.

Holy Land USA was once an 18 acre theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut. The 17.7-acre parcel of land is dotted with religious symbols and replicas of biblical scenes. It was closed for renovation in 1984, and its owner, John Greco, died in 1986, and nobody has been sure what to do with it since. The property has been watched over by a group of nuns in the intervening decades, while it deteriorates more and more, and just gets more and more disturbing.

Most locals don’t know who built these giant, concrete, saucer-shaped domes out in the middle of the Arizona desert, or why. The extreme neglect, oddness of the architecture and the “vibe” of the place as the sun goes down combine to give one a healthy sense of unease.

Located in Massachusetts, Danvers State Insane Asylum is old enough to have been commonly known as the State Lunatic Hospital. During it's most crowded period during the 1920s and ’30s, there were controversies over its rumored use of shock therapy, drugs and frontal lobotomies. Since its closure in 1992 it has fallen into a state of severe disrepair.

The world's largest theme park, Wonderland Amusement Park, located in China, never actually opened. When construction finally stopped in 1998, the builders had completed an entire village, a massive parking lot and a gargantuan fairy tale castle. The park plans eventually failed because they involved constructing most of the park on valuable farm land. The park still sits empty.

The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum is one of the only ventriloquism museums in the world and is home to the largest collection of ventriloquist dummies in the world. Located in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, it houses over 750 dummies. Not a place one might want to find themselves alone in the dark.

Also known as the Snake Island, Ilha de Queimada Grande is an island located off the coast of Brazil that plays host to a certain breed of exotic snake known as the Golden Lancehead. This snake has one of the worst venoms in the world, which literally causes your flesh to rot off your bones. The island is so densely populated by snakes (about five per square meter) that the Brazilian Navy has forbidden any form of tourism.

Lier Psychiatric Hospital in Norway has a long history as an institution. The sickest people in society were stowed away here and went from being people to being test subjects in the pharmaceutical industry’s search for new and better drugs. The massive buildings house the memory of a grim chapter in Norwegian psychiatric history the authorities would rather forget.

The great pyramid-filled city of Teotihuacan is located in the Basin of Mexico. The city went into decline about 1,400 years ago and was left in such ruins that no one knows who its builders were or what they called their home. The Aztecs, who would later make pilgrimages to the site, gave it its modern name, which means "the place where the gods were created."

Located in Estes Park, Colorado, The Stanley Hotel is one of the most haunted hotels in America. Stephen King got the inspiration for The Shining while staying here. Many a guest has reported disturbances, lets just say this isn't the kind of place one might want to spend a snowed in winter.

More than 100 feet below ground, carved directly into the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy and only accessible from a small, unassuming house, lies The Dream Temples of Damanhur. According to Oberto Airaudi, since the age of 10 he has experienced paranormal visions from "a past life" of amazingly intricate temples. Working in shifts, he and a group of like-minded individuals carved a maze that winds through the rock, connecting seven huge, impossibly ornate temples, some with ceilings as high as 25 feet.

The ghost town-slash-tourist resort of San Zhi is located just outside Taipei. The exclusive resort was supposed to be a vacation destination for rich people, but construction was quickly shut down after a series of mysterious on-site fatal accidents. There is very little official information on San Zhi.

Verosha, in Famagusta, has been abandoned since 1974. The Turkish army invaded Famagusta and the Greek-Cypriot forces were forced to retreat. The inhabitants of Verosha and the surrounding areas were evacuated south to live in temporarily cities that were set up to care for refugees. Many are still waiting to return to their homes.

Every time America or China dumps plastics in the water, it ends up in the ocean, and the currents drag it all to the same place--an area called the North Pacific Gyre. Over time, the garbage added up and now it's basically an island the size of Texas. If you were to try to step on the "island", you would immediately fall through the layer of trash, and then, kind of like ice diving, it would almost instantly fill in the hole leaving you trapped, and drowning, under the surface. Not to mention this island is a favorite hangout for sharks.

This former sanatorium southwest of Berlin was built to deal with an explosion of tuberculosis in the late 1800s, and expanded twice throughout the next several decades. It was put to use as a military hospital during both World Wars and has seen its share of death, despair, and craziness. The hospital was under the control of the Soviet Union until that country ceased to exist in the early ’90s, and has stood empty ever since.

Just down the road from the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, there lies whats left of the original village of Oradour-sur-Glane. On June 10th, 1944, The Nazis massacred 642 men, women and children with incendiary devices and machine gun fire, almost the entire population of the city. French President Charles DeGaulle ordered the town rebuilt, and it was—but he also ordered that the ruins of the old town should stay as a reminder, and they did.

This military base is about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Its claim to fame is that it's supposedly the top-secret site where alien bodies and technology were taken after a UFO crash-landing in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Whether the speculations are true or not, it is still an incredibly eery place, patrolled heavily by the US Military.

Started in 1858 thanks to a donation from Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, the museum's collection of the rare, strange, and bizarre has grown ever since. It contains a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment. It's the current home of the Hyrtl Skull Collection, a nine-foot-long human colon, a collection of inside-out babies, and the conjoined liver from the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker.

Located in a lagoon in Venice, Italy, this island got its scary start when the Romans decided the best thing for society was to round up all the plague victims of the era, and stick them somewhere. That somewhere happened to be Poveglia Island. Years later when the Bubonic plague tore through Europe, the island was reinstated. When the plague got worse, they lowered Poveglia's requirements, and ultimately began to throw thousands of infected into large pits, where they would be burned alive. Estimates put the death toll at 160,000 on the island, where charred bones still wash up on shore.

Hellingly is an abandoned hospital in England that was actually an insane asylum. Hellingly was once a state-of-the-art mental institution designed by G.T. Hine. This particular asylum contained a 63-acre estate with its own rail line, a ballroom, a salon and a water tower, but once the place was abandoned in 1994, it quickly fell into disrepair, you'd think it was abandoned in 1894, not a mere 16 years ago.

The last remaining un-renovated building out of the nineteen that used to make up a veterinary complex in Anderlecht, Brussels has stood deserted since the ’90s. Its vacant, crumbling halls lead to rooms that are each full of more horrifying stuff than the last. Old, hand-blown bottles full of questionable fluids, syringes and other old, rusty medical equipment, as well as animal heads, brains and assorted parts stuffed into jars are found throughout the building