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1. Museum of Anatomopathology, Austria, Vienna There are dozens of museums the exhibits of which are not intended for people with a weak nervous system: the Kunstkamera, Mutter Museum of medical history in Philadelphia and many others. Museum of Anatomopathology, Vienna, is the most famous of them. It represents a real monument to pathologies, abnormalities, genetic mutations and harsh medieval medicine. The museum’s second name is the Tower of the Stupid. The thing is that the museum is situated in the isolation ward of the former lunatic asylum. Even the most inveterate and cynical tourists who have traveled all over the world in search of adrenaline shall agree that this place is really frightful. 2. The Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic Plague has left many evidences of its pitiless activity. Several centuries ago a significant part of Europe turned into a real necropolis. When the cemeteries were overfilled, people had to dig out bones and arrange improvised depositories. Chapel cellars of numerous provincial European towns are still filled with sculls of the plague victims. The Czech ossuary is a special depository. In XVIII century “the medieval heritage” was disassembled not without imagination and unconventional cynicism. A famous wood carver of that time created for the Prince of Schwarzenberg an interior design all over of bones. The greatest impression is produced by the walls made of accurately stacked human skulls. The Schwarzenbergs’ coat of arms composed of bones shall not leave anyone untouched. 3. Paris Catacombs, France Paris catacombs might seem a common tourist path. There must be left no mystics and secrecy about them. However, before the beginning of the tour you shall recall novels of Victor Hugo, with their underground vaults and distressing atmosphere. Although catacombs lie under the whole city, only a small part of them is open for excursions. The rest part is day and night patrolled by the underground police in order to protect curious tourists, rather that to protect the catacombs (there is nothing to steal from there except for the bones). They say about ghosts, monsters and blind lunatics who have not appeared outside for several generations. It is nonsense, isn’t it? And now tell us, why such a civilized country spends considerable funds for maintaining a special police service? 4. Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau has been created on the territory of the former concentration camp of Oswiecim, where more than 4 million people had died. Tourists enter the museum through the famous gateway shot in hundreds of war movies. Then come brick blocks where prisoners had been kept. Museum expositions, for example, the things taken away by the fascists from their victims, give a real shock. There are no expositions in the neighboring camp Brzezinka. The state of the camp remained unchanged since war time. 5. Museum of Torture. Mdina, Malta There are many famous museums of torture – in Prague, Haag, Amsterdam, etc. However, the Mdina museum with a tremendous collection of guillotines, tongs for pulling out nails and other instruments of torture is considered the most frightful of them. Besides, application of the inquisition instruments is vividly demonstrated by extremely naturalistic wax figures. 6. The Winchester Mystery House. San Hose, California Numerous movies and stories are dedicated to this house. It was built by Sarah Winchester, the heiress of an armourer. Due to a terrible prophecy or for some other reasons she went crazy. The house is the fruit of her crazy imagination. It is tremendous and dreadful. A sound person merely cannot realize the intentions that had guided the lady during the 40-year construction period. The house is considered to be full of ghosts and other evil forces. Even if you do not believe in poltergeist, you shall certainly be impressed by Sara Winchester’s madness. 7. Dracula's Castle. Transilvania, Romania The medieval castle of the famous vampire is situated on the edge of an abyss. After passing through narrow passageways, dark rooms and resonant stone stairs, you shall find yourselves in the bedroom, where, on the big bed with a canopy, the vampire used to suck his victims’ blood. Even if you do not believe the story of Dracula, you are unlikely do enjoy the reality. Anyhow, this castle accommodated Vlad the Impaler, one of the most monstrous personalities of the Middle Ages, who had impaled hundreds of innocent people. And you call it “fairy tales”… 8. Gulag, Russia Millions of people had passed through Gulag for twenty years of its existence. The camps had extremely hard conditions; elementary human rights were violated; minor breaches of regime were drastically punished. Mortality of starvation, diseases and exhausting labor was extremely high. Even today, under the northern sky in Solovki, you may see deserted barracks, tunnels, punishment cells and depositories with prisoners’ clothes and shaved hair. 9. Museum of Execution Instruments, Paris, Fountaine de Vaucluse One more museum, entering the series of the world’s most horrifying museums. Its founder is personally acquainted with the issue – he had worked as an executioner more than ten years. It comprises execution instruments of all times and nations. At first glance you may consider the giant guillotine to be the most dreadful instrument. However, if you take a closer look, you shall realize that smaller instruments, so ordinary and harmless at first sight, may turn out much more dreadful... 10. The Valley of Death, Tibet This path runs at some distance from the famous pilgrim routes round the Kailas mountain. The field of the Valley of Death is full of bones – yogis come here to die; other people come here to find lightening, purification and obtain the secret knowledge. However, very few of them come back or keep their mental state. It is believed that in the Valley of Death the human sole undergoes a special trial as a result of which sinful or senseless lives are cut off. |
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