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Fear is an influential cocktail that can raise bumps on your skin, tense up a jaw and shift glances. Every October, people flock the neighborhood eerie places to enjoy the bloodcurdling fun.
Chapel of Bones:
Located in Evora, Portugal, a groveling dourness falls over every soul visiting this chapel (Capela dos Ossos) that is inside the Church of Sao Francisco. The walls and columns of the chapel are covered in creatively poised designs of bones from more than 5,000 exhumed skeletons. You can find scrupulously placed ribs and tibias from the bands of arches, tightly arranged skulls and vertebrae fill every breach. A 16th century Franciscan monk arranged each bone with a message filled with a dark sense of humor: Life is Temporary.
The chapel tour costs around $3and take you below the entrance's caveat that decodes into, "We bones, lying here, for yours we wait". The entrance takes you into a gorgeously lit chapel wherein a child's dried corpse hangs from a chain. The sight offers both- beautiful and gruesome at once which is disturbing.
Sonora, Mexico City:
If you are tired of shopping for the same old trinkets and seeing the same old stuff being sold everywhere, head to the Mercado Sonora or the "Witches Market" - a labyrinth of ritualistic, remedy-filled booths that is collectively named the Walmart of the witch world. A definite don't miss while in Mexico, Mexicans flock the market for herbal remedies, love potions, talismans and other spiritual balms. The place is like Mexico City's own Diagon Alley! Of course there's a dark side, such as misfortune charms from the Santeria; a religion that frightens the daylights out of locals-and don't give anyone in Mexico a black candle unless you really, actually mean it.
Bran Castle:
Wallachia is the source of vampire lore - started by the legendary ruler Vlad Tepes -and now a part of Romania. Tepes became the blight of the Ottoman Empire and was fond of bayoneting the entire Turkish forces sent against him. Though according to History, the Bran Castle had nothing to do with Vlad Tepes. It never belonged to him and it was an empty castle in his days. This vicious reputation of his inspired Irish author Bram Stoker to use him as the model for Dracula and there, a legend was born! Bran Castle, one of his iron grips, is now home to a museum dedicated to Queen Marie of Romania which as an astonishing cliff top silhouette, looking like a classic location for a vampire movie.
Chernobyl Amusement Park (Pripyat, Ukraine):
Built for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers and their families, this amusement park was scheduled to open May 1, 1986. But five days earlier the world's worst nuclear accident caused the evacuation of the town of 49,000 residents in four hours. In a place where a child's laughter was to echo, there's an eerie silence! There is a uncanny bareness in the amusement park and nearby buildings, now derelict for 25 years. The rusted Ferris wheel and bumper cars are everlastingly frozen in 1986.
Chapel of Bones:
Located in Evora, Portugal, a groveling dourness falls over every soul visiting this chapel (Capela dos Ossos) that is inside the Church of Sao Francisco. The walls and columns of the chapel are covered in creatively poised designs of bones from more than 5,000 exhumed skeletons. You can find scrupulously placed ribs and tibias from the bands of arches, tightly arranged skulls and vertebrae fill every breach. A 16th century Franciscan monk arranged each bone with a message filled with a dark sense of humor: Life is Temporary.
The chapel tour costs around $3and take you below the entrance's caveat that decodes into, "We bones, lying here, for yours we wait". The entrance takes you into a gorgeously lit chapel wherein a child's dried corpse hangs from a chain. The sight offers both- beautiful and gruesome at once which is disturbing.
Sonora, Mexico City:
If you are tired of shopping for the same old trinkets and seeing the same old stuff being sold everywhere, head to the Mercado Sonora or the "Witches Market" - a labyrinth of ritualistic, remedy-filled booths that is collectively named the Walmart of the witch world. A definite don't miss while in Mexico, Mexicans flock the market for herbal remedies, love potions, talismans and other spiritual balms. The place is like Mexico City's own Diagon Alley! Of course there's a dark side, such as misfortune charms from the Santeria; a religion that frightens the daylights out of locals-and don't give anyone in Mexico a black candle unless you really, actually mean it.
Bran Castle:
Wallachia is the source of vampire lore - started by the legendary ruler Vlad Tepes -and now a part of Romania. Tepes became the blight of the Ottoman Empire and was fond of bayoneting the entire Turkish forces sent against him. Though according to History, the Bran Castle had nothing to do with Vlad Tepes. It never belonged to him and it was an empty castle in his days. This vicious reputation of his inspired Irish author Bram Stoker to use him as the model for Dracula and there, a legend was born! Bran Castle, one of his iron grips, is now home to a museum dedicated to Queen Marie of Romania which as an astonishing cliff top silhouette, looking like a classic location for a vampire movie.
Chernobyl Amusement Park (Pripyat, Ukraine):
Built for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers and their families, this amusement park was scheduled to open May 1, 1986. But five days earlier the world's worst nuclear accident caused the evacuation of the town of 49,000 residents in four hours. In a place where a child's laughter was to echo, there's an eerie silence! There is a uncanny bareness in the amusement park and nearby buildings, now derelict for 25 years. The rusted Ferris wheel and bumper cars are everlastingly frozen in 1986.
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