Random Scariest Real Places on Planet Earth (28 items)

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  (#2) The Island of Dolls, Mexico

  The island's caretaker, Don Julian Santana Barrera, supposedly found a little girl drowned in a canal with her doll floating nearby. He hung the doll in a tree in her honor, became obsessed with the mystery of who she was, and continued to hang dolls in tribute for fifty years until he died in the exact place where she died.

   
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  (#28) Hill of Crosses

  • Lithuania

  It is thought that crosses were placed on this hill by families of rebels who had fallen in the 1831 revolt against Russia. The Russian government tried to remove them, but the Lithuanians weren't having it, and now there are hundreds of thousands of crosses on the hill.

  Pope John Paul II blessed the place in 1993. There are no stories of hauntings in the area as of yet, but it would still make a great setting for a horror movie. 
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  (#20) Pluckley

  • Kent, United Kingdom

  Pluckley, England was recognized in 1989 by the Guiness Book of Records as the most haunted place in England. What appears to be a quaint, attractive town by day is a town besieged by rumors of paranormal activity. In fact, it is said that there are at least fifteen different kinds of haunting in the town, ranging from haunted horses, the ghosts of a monk and gypsy, and spirits that will steal from you.
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  (#7) Danvers State Hospital

  • Danvers, Massachusetts, USA

  Danvers was one of the biggest insane asylums in the late nineteenth century United States, Danvers State Hospital was constructed on a 500 acre plot of land and housed thousands of patients who underwent early experiments with lobotomies and electroshock therapy. The structure was converted into apartments in 2008.
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  (#22) Tower of London

  • London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

  One of the world's best known structures also has one of it's bloodiest histories. From its beginnings in the early 1000s, the massive building was meant to serve as a fortress. Over the centuries, royal rivalries helped turn it into a prison and execution ground where many prisoners, aristocrats, and royals met their demise. 
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  (#10) Pripyat amusement park

  Once home to almost 50,000 people, Pripyat is the town closest to the nuclear meltdown site Chernobyl, which exploded in 1986. Its inhabitants were given little time to evacuate and left their belongings and pets behind, thinking they would return. The town is now a strange kind of time capsule, where toys are strewn about in a schoolhouse where they were dropped by evacuating children. There is also a heavy amount of radiation in the area. 

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