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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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(#16) Sedlec Ossuary
- Czech Republic
This church has a chandelier built with nearly one of every bone in the human body. In fact, this church has the bones of some 40,000 to 70,000 skeletons, many of which were shaped by a local woodcarver into pyramids, crosses, even a coat of arms.
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(#3) Poveglia
Poveglia is a small island with a terrifying past. In 1922, a mental hospital was constructed on the island. According to local legend, one doctor was particularly interested in running torturous experiments on his patients. Patients were butchered horrendously before falling, or being thrown from, a bell tower. Locals believe that at least 160,000 unfortunate souls resided on the island over its forty or so years as an asylum. Unsurprisingly, the island attracts ghost hunters, fans of the paranormal, and curious tourists.
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(#25) Hashima Island
- Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Some 9 miles off Nagasaki's coast lies this decrepit coal mining site built in the 1880s that Japanese engineering company Mitsubishi turned into a huge facility to house workers and their families. By the 1960s this dreary, dank place was "home" to around 5,000 people.
During World War II, it was a far from pleasant home to Korean and Chinese war prisoners, and as many as five workers a month died as a result of accidents.
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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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(#1) Aokigahara
- Japan
Known as the “Suicide Forest,” Aokigahara is the site of dozens of suicides each year.Volunteers sweep the forest each month looking for bodies and cleaning up the belongings of the dead.
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