a movie scene from Dracula (1930)
Haloween is here. This celebration of deaths has traveled around the world and become universal celebration every October 31st. Haloween parties are everywhere, and if you want to look for a different way to celebrate it, maybe you can arrange a holiday to visit one of these horrying places.
1. Capela dos Ossos, Evora, Portugal
Capela dos Ossos, Evora, Portugal
The 16th century Capela dos Ossos, or Chapel of The Bones, has 5,000 corpses into a consecrated chapel – as decoration for the chapel. The goosebump: two rotted corpses, of an unknown man & a young child, dangle precariously from nooses,
2. Torture Museum, Amsterdam
one of the collection of Torture Museum, Amsterdam
You can guess by yourself from the name itself. If you are a fans of Middle Age brutallity, you can admire one of its collection; the skull cracker. The goosebump: a disturbing illustraton of a naked man hung from his ankles like a wishbone and being sawed in half lengthwise.
3. The Museum of Death, USA
The Museum of Death, USA
This museum has great number of collections from serial killer artworks, horrific accidents and countless famous crime scene, including the guillotine-severed head of the murderous Bluebeard of Paris. The goosebump: The self-guided tour, and the gore-obsessed can linger over videos of autopsies and actual death footage.
4. Museo de Las Momias, Mexico
Some of the collections - Museo de Las Momias, Mexico
The museum collects 111 remarkable preserved mummies that were exhumed from Santa Paula Pantheon between 1865 and 1989. And you can see their scary facial expression, and for some people, they seem to shout ‘No!’ The goosebump: The Little Angle, a tiny baby mummies dressed in local tradition.
5. Capuchin Catacombs, Sicily
The famous Sleeping Beauty - Capuchin Catacombs, Sicily
Beneath the Palermo street, there is a ‘library’ of 8,000 embalmed bodies dressed in their funeral finest. As they have been in the same spot for the last 5 centuries, it’s pretty hard to dismiss the hauntingly hellish vision. The goosebump: the miraculously intact body of two-year-old Rosalia Lambardo, who died in 1920, or famously knows as ‘Sleeping Body.’
6. Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
The skeleton chandelier - Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
Once you step into this 15th-century Gothic church in Kutna Hora, you will be greeted by its horrifying interior. The 40,000 skeletons in form of candelabras, a towering coat arms, and a chandelier, are the main reason why this church makes its way to the list. The goosebump: A massive pyramid solemly constructed with 40,000 skeletons.
So, which one you’re dying to visit? Or you just don’t dare?
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