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1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia Mutter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits, situated in the oldest medical training complex of the North America. This museum is most famous for its enormous collection of skulls. It also includes various unique exhibits, for example the corpse of the woman that turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. Here you shall also come across the Siamese twins with the joined liver, the skeleton of the two-headed child and other weird exhibits. 2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia A considerable part of the Japanese naval fleet is now laying on the floor of the shallow lagoon of Truk in Micronesia, situated to the south-west of Hawaii. The blue depths, examined by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and full of debris of the naval vessels and aircraft-carriers became available for divers. However, some people are still afraid of their crews who had not left their military posts. Vessels and planes grew into coral reefs a long time ago, however, the number of too curious tourists who thrust their noses where they should not and become their victims is constantly growing. 3. Magical Market Sonora in the city of Mexico Mexican witches, sitting in close cabins, promise a quick rescue from poverty and adultery for only 10 bucks. Cages with tormented exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds are hung on the booth walls for sale. The market of Sonora is opened every day for Mexican pilgrims and tourists from remote countries who come here for the sake of fortune-telling and promises of a better life. In this the place where local citizens buy “supernatural” stuff, starting with potions made according to ancient Aztec recipes to the statues of Buddha. Stubborn enthusiasts shall probably manage to buy here somewhat blood of the rattlesnake or dried humming-birds to catch their luck. However, you should remember that witchcraft in Mexico is a serious issue: the National Association of Magicians has been involved in the President elections to make them honest and free by means of their conjuration. 4. Easter Island, Chile One of the most mysterious places in the world is the Easter Island with their great giant stone figures that had grown into the ground under the weight of millenniums. The statues are looking in the sky as if they are guilty of any mysterious crimes. Only these stone giants know where people who had made them disappeared. There is no one on the Island of Easter who knows the secret of making, transporting and mounting these giant statues with the height of up to 21 meters and up to 90 tons by weight. However, they were often transported for more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors had worked. Nowadays, the island that had once hosted the prosperous powerful civilization is a mere glimmer of life, and nobody knows wherefrom those mysterious constructors had come and where they had disappeared later. Certainly, except those who read about Thor Heyerdahl journeys in his childhood. These mysteries concerning how the statues had been made and transported – are not mysteries any more. 5. Manchac Swamp in Louisiana Old cypresses and long moss threads hanging down from cypress branches surround boats with tourists sailing in the swamps in the light of torches. The distant howling may belong to rou-ga-rou – the Cajun version of werewolf. Manchac swamp is also called “the ghost swamp”. It is situated near the New Orleans and represents a real dream for Goths. They say, that the swamp was cursed by the Voodoo queen when she was taken prisoner in the beginning of the XX century. The hurricane of 1915 destroyed three villages here. The peace of this bird cemetery is broken only by corpses periodically rising to the surface – the heritage of the commerce activity carried out more than 100 years ago. Besides, alligators that are more numerous than corpses do not disdain to eating fresh tourist meat. 6. Parisian Catacombs, France Bones and skulls are piled on each side of the corridor as the goods in a warehouse – there are a lot of goods. The air is dry with a little nuance of decomposition here. There are also inscriptions here. As a rule they refer to the time of the Great French Revolution and abuse the king and the noblemen. After you get inside the Parisian catacombs, you realize why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice had written their famous stories about these underground vaults. They stretch for approximately 187 kilometers under the whole city. Only a part of them is open to the public. They say that the other parts are patrolled by the special legendary underground police. However, most likely, they are patrolled by the legions of corpses or vampires. However, who is going to make out them after all. In the Roman times these places served as quarries, and when Parisian cemeteries became overfilled, in 1785 the catacombs acquired their present air. 7. The Winchester House, San-Jose, California The “magical” Winchester House is a giant construction connected with many prejudice. A fortuneteller told Sarah Winchester, the heiress of the arms company, that she would be chased by the ghosts of people who had been killed with Winchester guns, unless she left Connecticut for the West and built such a house that its construction would be impossible to finish during all her life. The construction began in 1884 in San-Jose and continued for 38 years until Sarah died. Nowadays, ghosts of her madness live in 160 rooms of the house: stairs, leading to the ceiling; doors, opening in the middle of the walls; spider motives, girandoles and hooks. Since the house was opened for visiting, its guests go on complaining of the slamming doors, steps at night, moving lights, door-handles that turn by themselves. Even if tourists do not believe in ghosts, the house astonishes them by its immensity. 8. The Mary King dead-end in Edinburgh Several streets with the dark past are hidden under the Medieval old town in Edinburgh. The place where the victims of plague were shut and left to die is famous for its poltergeists. Something invisible touches the tourists’ hands and feet. This is believed to be the ghost of a young girl Anny who was left there by her parents in 1645. After a century, the term that is so beloved in the scary fairy-tales, a big new building was built at the place of the Mary King dead-end. In 2003 the dead-end was opened for tourists who were attracted by the stories of its supernatural spirits. The excursionists shall be brought down the stone stairs to the narrow oppressing lanes. Besides the Anny’s room, the exposition of the Medieval life and deaths of plague is restored there. The main thing is not to stop, especially if you feel the icy waft of death. 9. The Occult Thelema Abbey in Sicily Aleister Crowley is probably one of the most villainous occultists in the world, and this stone farmhouse, stuffed with solemn pagan frescoes had once served as the world capital of the Satanic orgies. At least, people thought this way in 1920s. Crowley is mainly famous for its fans like Marilyn Manson and for the fact that he appeared on the cover of the album “ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” by “The Beatles”. Crowley founded the Thelema Abbey named after the Utopia described in Rabelais' novel “Gargantua”. Its motto was “Do what you want”. The place became the commune of the free love. The newcomers had to spend a might in the “Horror room”, where filled with heroine and marijuana they stared at frescoes picturing earth, skies and hell. After a popular English dandy had died in the Abby, the press blew a scandal and forced Mussolini to close it. A notorious underground director unearthed this story in 1945 and shot a movie that later on disappeared in a mysterious way. Nowadays, the abbey is half-destroyed and overgrown with grass. However, there are a few intact frescoes inside by means of which Crowley used to intimidate his followers. Tourists who are inclined to esoteric things may wonder and tickle their nerves there. 10. Chernobyl in the Ukraine Arriving in the abandoned town of Pripyat, the Ukraine, the tourists find themselves in the estrangement area. All the things are left in hurry since that very terrible year of 1986, when the accident on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant made tens of thousands of people leave their homes forever. Apartments are open wide, ivy is twisting on the colorful walls of kindergartens, toys are lying on the floor, unread papers are left on kitchen tables. Swings are still creaking in the yard after blasts of the dead wind. Now that the radiation level is safe for a short-term visit, the Chernobyl area is opened for tourists. Excursions to Chernobyl are practically the same, since movements in the estrangement area are very limited. As a rule, tourists depart Kiev by the bus, then walk to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, make an excursion through it and look at the “Sarcophagus”. They may also wander along the ghost town of Pripyat, visit parking of the contaminated vehicles and meet local citizens of the “prohibited area”. |
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