The scariest spots around the world

floating gardencovered with thehundreds of dollsscrounged rubbish piles, the dolls were hung from trees to keep away evil spirits and remember the drowning death of a young girl. According to Barrera, the dolls he planted and hung around the chinampa were still alive, but forgotten by their owners. While alive, Barrera would move the dolls around the island from different trees, creating a chilling sight. The chinampa is accessible by boat and the dolls are still around, despite Barrera’s death in 1992.The groundswere already a popular burial destination, due to a monk sprinkling the cemetery with dirt from Golgotha (location where the crucifixion of Jesus wasto occurTocope with demand, a large church was built and thus began 400 years of exhuming bodies for a very unique form of interior design. Around 1870, a woodcarver named František Rint organised all the bones into elaborate and chilling sculptures, chandeliers and coat-of-arms. The Ossuary has since become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Czech Republic.You may have some issues accessing this small, narrow tunnel located on a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, but between midnight and 1 am on rainy nights a samurai apparently keen on revenging his master will appear. Surprisingly shy, this warrior only appears to solo travellers, and there areexpats that left the tunnel disappointed. Some believehis spirit is unsettled as he is unable to finish a task for his master and loyalty prevents him from finding peaceBirds of a feather are not the only ones who flock together. On a lonely hill fort in 1831, people planted crosses to remember loved ones who died in an uprising against the Russian empire. Over time, with more skirmishes and unrest, became popular as a place for prayer, remembrance, resistance and even more crossesAs of today, there are well over 100,000 crosses teetering over oneanother, punctuated with small religious statues, rosaries and portraits. It has withstood repeated attempts to remove the crosses, including bulldozing. Though it appears out of this world and spooky, it is, at heart, a peaceful location earning plaudits After losing her husband and young child, Sarah Winchester became convinced that spirits were cursing her family due to the guns made by the Winchester family empire. To remedy this, she located an unfinished farm and commenced building around the clock. Construction work on what became knownnever ceased during her lifetime (not even for a minute), with Sarah believing it would stave off angry spirits., the four-storey home with 160 rooms is open to the public, in San Jose, California. It is a confusing array of rooms, doors that open to walls and non-functioning bathrooms. Look out for Mrs Winchester’s favourite flourishes; the number 13 and spider webs.Abandoned in 1986, Pripyat was established as a city for workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Evacuated after the devastating meltdown, the Ukrainian city has existed in standstill, a picture of slow dilapidation. With no maintenance performed on buildings, roofs fall, water leaks and trees grow through floors.
Some people have travelled through to take photos and measure radioactivity levels in the area, but this is an adventure best left to the experts.