1. Alice White, Alaska (United States)
City of gold seekers, there is a century, and now the terminus of the sled dog race Iditarod, Nome is the perfect example of the city lost frontier near the Arctic Circle. Overlooking the city and the Bering Strait to the Anvil Mountain summit rises Alice White, a strange relic of the Cold War. What appears from Nome as an amazing futuristic megalithic monument might suggest, closer to the set of the film War of the Worlds. The four strange corrugated iron structures and reflective sounds were intended to capture suspicious Soviet activities.
For an unforgettable experience in Alaska, visit White Alice under the midnight sun: Nome and the Bering Strait at your feet, the Arctic Circle in the north and Siberia not far to the west.
2. Scott Monument, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Erected in honor of Walter Scott, this gothic fantasy-like Thai temple is one of the most emblematic monuments standing in the Edinburgh sky. The climb to the top of the boom 61 m is nothing intimidating good, until you find yourself climbing the tiny spiral staircase. It takes all the agility of a caver to get out the door after the last notoriously narrow curve. The novelist Ian Rankin has located the scene of one of his thrillers at the top of the monument and the plot is tied as follows: the laws of physics allow, they lower a rigid body by a staircase as crooked? You're not claustrophobic? You might change your mind.
3. Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai (Thailand)
Still under construction, this modern temple (1997) controversial is both traditional Buddhist sanctuary of the cake with white icing and complete the work of avant-garde art, with an unfortunate penchant for woodpeckers. To get there, you have to cross a bridge over a field of fangs and hundreds of statues emerging from hell, the tortured face and imploring arms. If the outside is sparkling white, golden sparkles inside and in other parts of the sanctuary (including the toilets).
Open daily, the "white temple" is close drive from Chiang Rai.
4. Dongyue Temple, Beijing (China)
Visiting the Dongyue Temple in Beijing (Peking), Taoist sanctuary still active, appears as disturbing as captivating. Upon entering, you dive into a Taoist hell populated by tormented spirits meditating on their mistakes. Reflect on the meaning of life in the spiritual flag of the "Department of Life and Death." Most intrepid prefer the "Department of Ghosts wandering" or that of "Fifteen-violent ways of killing." If you are ill, do not forget the "Department of deeply rooted diseases." Other pavilions, less morbid, also worth a visit. The animation is in full swing during the Chinese New Year and the Feast of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
With a few yuan more, enjoy the explanations of a guide without which the temple might seem "dark".
5. Catacombs Capucines, Palermo (Sicily, Italy)
The "inhabitants" of the catacombs beneath the Capuchin convent parlermitain are interred dressed in their Sunday best. The centuries passed, the clothes are often better preserved than the spoils. The catacombs contain the mummified body and bones of some 8,000 dead Palermitans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Their conservation status sometimes gives a lifelike gloomily. Men and women live in separate galleries and reserved for second part contains a section for virgins. Visiting the catacombs impressive for adults, is pretty scary for children.
The Catacombs (Via Cappuccini) are fifteen minutes walk or a short bus ride from Piazza Indipendenza.
6. Lemp Mansion, St. Louis (United States)
Considered one of the worst haunted houses in the United States (provided that there is a gradation in the matter), this mansion has a long history of disturbing events. Since Charles Lemp committed suicide there in 1949, strange facts were identified: doors that open by themselves, glasses falling from the tables and break ... Today, a restaurant and an inn surf its morbid reputation offering dinner shows Mystery, Halloween parties and weekly tours framed by a well-known specialist in paranormal. Are you ready to spend the night?
7. Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora (Czech Republic)
The crypt of the monastery in Sedlec, where the dead are buried for centuries, including victims of plague outbreaks and Hussite wars neared the overflow in the 1870 A local carpenter was given the daunting task of use for creative purposes the 40,000 skeletons piled in the crypt. Thus a large part of bones and skulls of all sizes were used to decorate the chapel light fixtures popular, series of bells, furniture, garish murals and other emblems. The effect is achieved in a very ... macabre genre.
8. Death Road (Bolivia)
Until 1995, the Yungas road linking La Paz, the Bolivian capital, to the town of Coroico was "merely" an often fatal axis. And the IDB has officially named the "most dangerous road in the world", and the place became a magnet for daredevils. While hairpins, this narrow gravel road seen through the truck whose wheels are flirting dangerously with precipices of 1000 m - no wonder that on average 26 vehicles disappear each year in a vacuum. A real adventure tourism has grown here, and bikers zigzag now happily avoiding trucks - and the call of the void.
Contact a travel agency to hire a jeep from La Paz to Sorata for less than $ 100. The New Millennium Tour Company rents bikes.
9. Jail Hostel, Ottawa (Canada)
How about sleeping in a haunted by the spirit of former detainees and closed in the early 1970s because prison deplorable prison conditions? Opened in 1862, the Carleton County Gaol hosted for more than a century of prisoners who complained about the cramped and unsanitary conditions. Now converted into a youth hostel, it will fit the bill for budget travelers, willing to sleep in an old cell and confront the ghosts of the past. Parking, Wi-Fi and game room are among the punishments of these new "prisoners."
10. Museum of Parasitology, Tokyo (Japan)
A very special wildlife are exposed in this Japanese museum: the cups and colored test tubes that line the walls against each contain a different parasite, human or animal - tapeworm, roundworm and other larvae. To better understand parasitology, anatomical charts illustrate the life cycle of some of these freeloaders, and pretty disgusting medical images show the impact on host organisms. If you are still wondering, the store offers T-shirts and key chains bearing the image of the lovely critters. In its advertising, Tokyo museum boasts of being the perfect venue for lovers ... Eat light before the visit!
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