Designing Your Character & Other Handy Things 2

World's Scariest Places

1. Island of the Dolls: south of Mexico, literally an island full of creepy discarded doll parts, supposedly dedicated to the soul of a little girl who drowned

2. Aokigahara forest: a forest in Japan known as the suicide forest, if you walk around you'll probably find the bodies of many depressed souls

3. Lalaurie House: American Horror Story Coven fans, an entire episode was based off of this. It's a house that belonged to this wicked lady that performed MANY, MANY hideous crimes towards her slaves. Don't eat while reading what this woman did.

4. Catacomb of Paris: underground cemetery which hosts over 6 million bodies, only ½ a mile of this immense structure is open to the public. It stretches for 600 km. Here's a supposed  who got lost here

5. Sedlic Ossuary: also known as the Church of the Bones in the Czech Republic, holds the bones of more than 40,000 human skeletons, and they've all been artistically placed inside this small chapel. It's haunting, gruesome, and just plain odd.

6. Abandoned Takakanonuma Amusement Park: located in Japan and built in 1973, this park closed permanently again in 1999. Instead of dissembling everything, they abandoned the grounds. Rumor has it there were several deaths during its first run, so perhaps the ghosts still linger in the park.

7.      Forensic Anthropology Research Centre: located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this is where decomposing human remains are studied for forensic science and other purposes. More than 100 bodies are donated to the facility every year, and then they are left there to rot and decompose.

8. Tual Sleng: located in Cambodia, it used to be a prison and is now a genocide museum. Horrible torture went on here, over 20,000 people have died.

9. Stanley Hotel: it's located in Colorado, and is the inspiration for Stephen King'sThe Shining. You can read about the hauntings

10. Poveglia Island: located in Italy, it served as a dumping ground for those who were sick because of the plague. It later served as a mental hospital, where rumor has it the doctor was driven mad by the ghosts and jumped out of a bell tower.

11. Overoun Bridge:  Since the 1950s, dozens of dogs have leapt from the bridge to the waterfalls 50 feet below, at a rate of one every month. The most plausible explanation is that the strong smell of male mink urine, detected in the undergrowth beneath the bridge, has been luring dogs to their death.

12. Bunny Man Bridge: a bridge in Virginia where there is alleged sites of a man in bunny suit terrorizing people with his axe

13. Hashima Island: Hashima was used as a coal mining facility between 1887 and 1974. After petroleum replaced coal throughout Japan in the 1960s, Hashima was abandoned, and is now known as "Ghost Island". What's really cool is how you can explore this place on google maps!

14. Tower of London: London's imposing stone tower is, according to legend, haunted by dozens of regal souls, many of whom met their end within its grey walls.

15. Edinburgh Castle: One of Scotland's most haunted sites, Edinburgh Castle is said to be home to a phantom piper, a headless drummer and a spectral dog.

16. Pripayt: an abandoned city in north of Ukraine where every left right after the nuclear disaster

17. Lulia Hasdeu Castle: built by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in Campina, Romania after the death of his 19-year-old daughter, Iulia. Hasdeu dedicated the castle and the rest of his life to Iulia. He became a practitioner of spiritualism in an attempt to reconnect with her spirit, and designed one room in the castle solely for the purposes of these daily spiritual exercises. Its walls are all black. Iulia reportedly haunts the castle still, walking through the courtyard in a white dress and holding daisies. Oh, and she still plays the piano each night.