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Winchester Mystery HouseThe Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester.3 min / Deep
Creepy: AokigaharaAokigahara (青木ヶ原, 'Aucuba Tree Meadow'), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, thriving on 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE.3 min / Deep
Creepy: BeelitzBeelitz (German pronunciation: ) is a historic town in Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.3 min / Deep
Bell WitchThe Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee.3 min / Deep
Bhangarh FortThe Bhangarh Fort is a 16th-century fort built in the Rajasthan state of India.2 min / Medium
Bog bodyA bog body is a cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.3 min / Deep
Borley RectoryBorley Rectory was a house located in Borley, Essex, famous for being described as "the most haunted house in England" by psychic researcher Harry Price.3 min / Deep
Bran CastleBran Castle (Romanian: Castelul Bran; German: Schloss Bran or Die Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvári kastély) is a castle in Bran, 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Brașov.3 min / Deep
Chase VaultThe Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins".3 min / Deep
Creepy: DargavsDargavs (Iron Ossetic: Дæргъæвс, Dærğævs) is a settlement in Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located on the Gizeldon River.2 min / Medium
Gates of hellThe gates of hell are various places on the surface of the world that have acquired a legendary reputation for being entrances to the underworld.3 min / Deep
Eastern State PenitentiaryThe Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.3 min / Deep
Edinburgh VaultsThe Edinburgh Vaults or South Bridge Vaults are a series of chambers formed in the nineteen arches of the South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland.3 min / Deep
Creepy: GefGef ( JEF), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man.3 min / Deep
Greenbrier GhostThe Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the ghost of Elva Zona Heaster Shue, a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897.3 min / Deep
Hanging coffinsHanging coffins are coffins which have been placed on cliffs.3 min / Deep
Hellfire CavesThe Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend 260m underground.3 min / Deep
Houska CastleHouska Castle (Czech: Hrad Houska) is an early Gothic castle in the municipality of Blatce in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.3 min / Deep
Ilha da Queimada GrandeIlha da Queimada Grande, more commonly referred to as Snake Island, is an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean.3 min / Medium
Kabayan MummiesThe Fire Mummies, also known as the Kabayan Mummies, Benguet Mummies, or Ibaloi Mummies, are a group of mummies found along the mountain slopes of Kabayan, Benguet, a town in the northern Philippines.2 min / Medium
Leap CastleLeap Castle (; Irish: Caisleán Léim Uí Bhánáin (IPA:)) is a castle in Roscrea, County Offaly, Ireland, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of the town of Roscrea and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Kinnitty on the R421.3 min / Deep
Lindow ManLindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.3 min / Deep
Mercy Brown vampire incidentThe Mercy Brown vampire incident occurred in Rhode Island in January 1892.2 min / Medium
Mummies of GuanajuatoThe Mummies of Guanajuato are a collection of naturally mummified human remains from Guanajuato City, Mexico.3 min / Deep
Mütter MuseumThe Mütter Museum is a medical history and science museum located in the Center City Philadelphia.3 min / Deep
Creepy: PovegliaPoveglia ( poh-VEL-ee-ə; Italian: ) is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, of northern Italy.3 min / Deep
Sedlec OssuaryThe Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: Kostnice v Sedlci; German: Sedletz-Beinhaus) is a Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých), part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.3 min / Deep
Island of the DollsThe Island of the Dolls (Spanish: Isla de las Muñecas) is a chinampa of the Laguna de Tequila located in the channels of Xochimilco, south of the center of Mexico City, Mexico.3 min / Medium
Tollund ManThe Tollund Man (died between 405 and 384 BC) is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.3 min / Deep
Tower of LondonThe Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England.3 min / Deep
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic AsylumThe Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (TALA) was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia, and it has previously been known by other names, such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital.3 min / Deep
Waverly Hills SanatoriumThe Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.3 min / Deep
Catacombs of ParisA vast ossuary beneath Paris turned old quarries into a city of bones.9 min / Easy
The Island of the DollsA canal island near Mexico City became covered with weathered hanging dolls.7 min / Easy
Sedlec OssuaryA small chapel in the Czech Republic is decorated with the bones of thousands.7 min / Easy
Capuchin Catacombs of PalermoAn underground cemetery preserves thousands of bodies in a strangely intimate archive.9 min / Easy
Hoia ForestA Romanian forest became famous for folklore, unusual photographs, and paranormal claims.7 min / Easy
PovegliaA Venetian island layered with plague history, quarantine, and abandonment.8 min / Easy
DargavsA mountain necropolis in North Ossetia is known as the City of the Dead.7 min / Easy
Hellfire CavesMan-made chalk caves became linked with secret clubs and occult rumors.7 min / Easy
Edinburgh VaultsUnderground chambers beneath the city held workshops, storage, and darker stories.8 min / Easy
Tower of LondonA fortress, prison, palace, and execution site layered with royal ghosts.10 min / Medium
Eastern State PenitentiaryA revolutionary prison design became a ruin associated with isolation and decay.8 min / Easy
Waverly Hills SanatoriumA former tuberculosis hospital became famous for ghost stories and urban legends.7 min / Easy
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic AsylumA massive psychiatric hospital tells a difficult story of architecture and care.8 min / Medium
Beelitz-HeilstattenA sprawling German sanatorium complex moved from medical history into eerie ruin photography.7 min / Easy
Houska CastleA Czech castle is wrapped in stories about a chapel built over a bottomless pit.7 min / Easy
Leap CastleAn Irish castle became known for violent history and haunting legends.7 min / Easy
Ancient Ram InnA medieval inn became a staple of British haunting folklore.6 min / Easy
Mutter MuseumA medical museum in Philadelphia preserves anatomical specimens and unusual historical cases.8 min / Easy
University of Tennessee Anthropological Research FacilityThe first modern body farm studies human decomposition for forensic science.9 min / Medium
La Recoleta CemeteryBuenos Aires' elaborate cemetery holds mausoleums, legends, and national memory.8 min / Easy
Willard Asylum for the Chronic InsaneA former asylum became known for patient suitcases left behind as silent archives.8 min / Easy
St. George's Church, LukovaA Czech church became known for ghostly shrouded figures installed in its pews.6 min / Easy
AokigaharaA dense forest on Mount Fuji carries folklore, lava caves, and a somber reputation.8 min / Medium
Door to HellA burning gas crater in Turkmenistan has glowed in the desert for decades.7 min / Easy
Capela dos OssosA Portuguese chapel lined with human bones was built to prompt reflection on the brevity of life.7 min / Easy
Mummies of GuanajuatoNaturally preserved bodies discovered in a Mexican cemetery became an unusual museum collection.8 min / Easy
Chauchilla CemeteryAn ancient Peruvian burial ground preserves mummified remains in open desert tombs.7 min / Easy
Kabayan MummiesFire-preserved mummies in Philippine mountain caves record an old and distinctive burial tradition.8 min / Easy
Tollund ManA remarkably preserved Iron Age man was recovered from a Danish peat bog in 1950.8 min / Easy
Lindow ManA body found in an English bog revealed a complex and violent death from the Iron Age.8 min / Easy
Hanging coffinsSeveral cultures placed coffins on cliffs, raising the dead above settlements and farmland.7 min / Easy
Ilha da Queimada GrandeA protected Brazilian island supports a dense population of highly venomous golden lancehead vipers.7 min / Easy
Mercy Brown vampire incidentA New England family exhumed a relative in 1892 during a tuberculosis panic shaped by vampire folklore.8 min / Easy
Enfield poltergeistClaims from a London council house in the late 1970s became one of Britain's most debated haunting cases.10 min / Medium
GefA talking-mongoose story from the Isle of Man drew journalists and paranormal investigators during the 1930s.8 min / Easy
Greenbrier GhostWest Virginia folklore says a murder victim's apparition helped expose the circumstances of her death.8 min / Easy