LIFE: The World’s Scariest Places

Visit haunted houses, creepy cemeteries, scary ghost towns, and shocking paranormal hotspots . . . all without leaving the comfort of your own well-lit, probably safe home. Dozens of the world’s most horrifying locales are showcased in this intriguing Special Edition, from the editors of LIFE in The World¿s Scariest Places. Explore the real-world places that lie behind legends of vampires, ghosts, and other out-of-this-world phenomena. Bone-chilling photographs help tell the unforgettable stories of haunted, horrifying, and simply unexplainable places around the globe, from the Tower of London to Templo Mayor in Mexico, from Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris to the Cedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic. Skeletons, mummies, bats, gravestones, skulls, abandoned buildings left to decay–LIFE The World’s Scariest Places is the safest way to experience the scariest sights.