Thinking of taking a late holiday this year? Well even though the following locations are among the creepiest places on Earth, you've got to admit that you're a little curious to see them for yourself. Camping in the Suicide Forest or visiting a city made desolate following Chernobyl won't exactly be the romantic getaway you and your other half were looking for, but they'd make for a far more interesting story for the folks back home than the tales you'd tell following a sunny weekend in a villa in Spain.
Scroll through the gallery below to view the top 10 creepiest places on Earth that we still kind of want to visit.
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Top 10 Creepiest Places on Earth
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Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara Forest, also known as the 'Suicide Forest', has somehow became the go-to destination for those wanting to end their lives. Located on the base of Mt. Fuji, the forest is filled with the decomposing remains of so many Japanese citizens that there are people hired to venture into it and report on any new findings. The lonely and depressed often camp out in the forest prior to committing suicide, with their abandoned tents scattered around its floor.
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The Body Farm
Located in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Body Farm is an outdoors research facility in which hundreds of dead bodies in various states of decomposition are scattered. These bodies are used by crime scene investigators to reenact murder scenarios in the most realistic way possible, and are donated by those who wish to help catch murderers from beyond the grave.
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Candido Godoi
Candido Godoi is a town in Brazil with an extraordinarily high number of twins. The cause of this isn't known, but many have speculated that Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who had performed "twin experiments" in Auschwitz in order to increase the Aryan population, had continued these experiments in Candido Godoi after he had fled to South America following the collapse of the Nazi regime. However, many historians dispute this theory and claim that the town's high twin rate is due to excessive inbreeding.
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Devil's Kettle
At first glance this waterfall and rock formation in Minnesota looks perfectly normal. However, while on the surface the pothole on the left of this image wouldn't turn many heads, it's what happens underground that has confused researchers the world over. While the water of the Brule River runs into the 'Devil's Kettle', no one has ever discovered where that water goes. Multiple tests have been made in an to attempt to discover where the Devil's Kettle leads to, but all have proven inconclusive. As it stands, it seems that anything that goes into it simply vanishes.
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Island of the Dolls
Isla de las Munecas, or Island of the Dolls, is so called because it is littered with hundreds of dolls tied to its trees, hung from branches and scattered along its floor. What makes this even more disturbing is that all of this was done by one man, a hermit named Julian Santana Barrera, who according to legend discovered the remains of a young girl who had drowned off shore. Julian found her doll floating in the water nearby, and in memory of her tied it to a tree. He then began to decorate the island with more dolls he found in tips and the nearby canal, which he believed was appeasing the spirit of the dead girl he found. Julian died in 2001, with the prevailing theory behind his death being that he committed suicide after being driven insane. However, the Island of the Dolls is still accessible by boat.
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North Korea
North Korea is unlike any other country on Earth, and for all the wrong reasons. Ruled by a power-hungry family of dictators for over six decades, the government's horrendously poor treatment of its citizens is well-documented, with it now being little more than an impoverished wasteland of abandoned buildings and starving citizens brainwashed by their abusive Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. North Korea isn't so much creepy as it is terrifying, but that's what makes it so incredibly fascinating.
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The Overtoun Bridge
The Overtoun Bridge in Scotland has seen over 600 leap to their deaths from it, but it's not just humans who use the bridge in order to commit suicide - dogs do, too. Since its construction, between 12 - 15 dogs jump from Overtoun Bridge per year. The reason behind this tragic phenonemon is unknown.
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Pripyat
Evacuated a few days after the Chernobyl disaster, Pripyat was once home to 50,000 people but now it stands completely abandoned. Hospitals, theme parks and playgrounds are desolate landmarks from a society forced to leave their lives behind them, and due to radiation it remained completely uninhabited for over two decades. However, the Ukrainian government has now begun to allow tourists to visit the city due to a decrease in the possibility of radiation poisoning.
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Sanzhi UFO Houses
Taiwan's Sanzhi UFO Houses, as they have now came to be known, were intended to be part of a vacation resort in the late '70s. However, following some financial difficulties, the project was abandoned, and the creepy-looking houses were abandoned for many years until being demolished in 2010.
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Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House in Northern California was constructed under the supervision of Sarah Winchester, who insisted upon around-the-clock development on the property. As such, the house is actually more of a huge, winding mansion, filled with corridors that lead nowhere, staircases that seem to go upwards endlessly and other odd features. It is said that Sarah believed she was being haunted by the spirits of those who had been called by Winchester rifles (her deceased husband was gun magnate William Winchester), who ordered her to keep working on the house. Following her death construction work on the property immediately stopped, and it is now a tourist attraction.
