This is known as the world’s first truly extreme haunt, with McKamey Manor having had numerous locations and even more scandals.

The only admission fee is dog food for the owner’s pets, so this amateur-run haunted house does not have trained staff and no safe word.

Participants also have their experience filmed and uploaded to YouTube, with some rooms being too terrifying to be even included.

Infinity Pools are often found on the amenity lists of luxury spas and high-end hotels. Not in the natural world.

But the Devil’s Pool in Zambia is a real-life example, with rock pools formed by erosion at the top of Victoria Falls.

Daring tourists dangle their legs and arms over the edge, but nothing is there to prevent a person from falling.

Scary tourist attractions are terrifying when they constitute a real and present physical danger, while others are just physiologically unnerving.

America’s Vent Haven Museum of Ventriloquism is a museum with rooms and rooms of decrepit, staring dolls from vaudeville history and beyond.

This is a building designed to give even the bravest of tourists real nightmares.

If you like places with high temperatures on vacation, then check out Erta Ale in Ethiopia.

Be warned though, that you won’t find any steamy saunas or sandy beaches, but you will experience the sizzling heat of the largest lava lake in the world.

Known locally as the “Smoking Mountain” and “Gateway To Hell,” brave tourists look right into this volcano’s terrifying mouth.

Visit the catacombs of Palermo to see the largest collection of mummified bodies on Earth.

The story here is that friars from the 16th century discovered the naturally mummified bodies of their forebears.

They declared the phenomenon as an “act of God”, and continued the practice in earnest.

Today, thousands of those mummified bodies can be perused, with some arranged by profession, gender and class.

Thrill-seeking tourists who require readily-available bathrooms and snacks on demand should check out the Fury 325 roller-coaster at Carowinds amusement park in North Carolina.

It’s the fifth-tallest coaster in the world and the tallest to still use a traditional chain-life mechanism, so this promises one of the most intense rides ever.

Tourists looking for a terrifying holiday experience would probably not go to Alnwick Gardens, thanks to its history of housing the personal plant collection of the 1st Duke of Northumberland.

It’s also perfect for promenading.

This spot also houses the Poison Garden, boasting of beds of belladonna, hemlock and foxglove, all of it in touching-distance of the general public.

Swimming with dolphins on a vacation is pretty common for travellers, with some even brave enough to go diving in shark cages.

But if neither of the two are extreme enough, you could always try Australia’s Cage of Death.

It is made from just four-centimeter thick acrylic, and this cube is lowered into a lake filled with vicious alligators who would love to bite and snap at your limbs.

If you’ve tried bungee jumping and felt like, “This just doesn’t conjure the call of the void the way I’d like it to”, then go visit the Villarrica Volcano.

The trip to Pucon, Chile comes with an extreme vacationing package.

You’ll have the opportunity to plunge straight towards the bubbling lava, earning you lifetime bragging rights and possibly a new fear, but at least it’s on Instagram.

This is the former personal residence of Sarah Winchester, and the mansion in San Jose is a famous tourist attraction.

It even inspired a film starring Dame Helen Mirren.

This mystery house has a sprawling and confusing layout complete with doorways that lead to nowhere and even staircases that abruptly end.

The heiress to Winchester rifles was said to have had the property built for the deceased victims of her family’s creation.

One of the world’s worst nuclear disasters delivered thousands of deaths over three decades, resulting in large areas of land banned from the public and kept restricted.

But a booming tourism industry had desperate people touring the ghost town left behind, after the workers, their families, and those living in the area were forced to evacuate.

The prison island was once home to some of the most dangerous criminals the US had to offer, but Alcatraz is open now to tours and visitors.

Famously the most haunted prison in America, Al Capone, and Robert Stroud once lived on this island, but they say the dark criminals still haunt the halls and can even be witnessed if you book an evening tour.

This is a must-have on the to-visit list of many visitors to the capital of France, since the catacombs are a famously dark attraction.

Every wall and every ceiling are lined with the skulls and bones of over six million people, no wonder this is considered a really scary and haunted tourist attraction.

It’s perfectly legal to visit but do stay in the allowed areas and don’t wander off alone.

Take a trip just outside of Mexico City, and you’ll find The Island of the Dolls.

The story is that a young girl drowned in the canal near the island so the caretaker decided to hang up her doll on the island in remembrance of her.

So people have added hundreds of dolls over the years and despite its sweet beginning, it’s just impossible to not be a little creeped out by the sight of them.

Salem is famously known as the center for the witchcraft trials in the USA thanks to the 1692 witch trials in which 20 accused people were hanged for being alleged witches.

Today, the town still honors that history with their witch history museum, the witch dungeon museum, and even hosting multiple events like The Salem Horror Fest and The Salem Psychic Fair.

The author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, never visited Romania, but Bran’s castle bears a striking resemblance to the description of the vampire’s home in the famous novel.

Combine this with rumors of steregoi in the village of Bran, plus the imposing outline of the building, it’s no surprise people consider this a spooky destination.

Tales of this forest have gone viral in recent years, (like Logan Paul’s misstep video) and films were also released based on this location.

It’s the world’s most popular suicide spot with the forest said to be haunted by the ghosts of all who gave up their lives in Aokigahara.

In 2020 alone, 200 people attempted suicide in the forest.

The world’s highest bridge was opened in 2016, but aside from its terrifying height, the really scary part about this tourist spot is that it is entirely glass-bottomed, so you can see the full drop below as you walk across it.

It is 1,410 feet across and nearly 1000 feet high, and the bridge was built to cut down commute time in between cities.

Peruvian hanging hotels aren’t for the faint of heart, especially when you see these transparent pods attached to the side of cliffs in Sacred Valley, Peru.

To spend the night in those, you have to either climb a 400-foot steel ladder or zipline to your pod for the night.

Each pod has a double bed, bathroom, and lounge area allowing you to enjoy the stunning views if you’re brave enough.

Visiting old mental hospitals wherein patients were treated way differently from how it’s done today is enough to give anyone the creeps, but this asylum in West Virginia is rumored to be extremely haunted by ex-patients.

This place was active in the 50s with over 2000 patients in its wards.

Tourists can book ghost tours to experience the frights for themselves.

North Yungas Road, also known as the ‘death road’ is one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

This road winds through the Amazon rainforest, and it used to be so treacherous that in the 90s there were between 200-300 deaths a year.

Nowadays, there’s less traffic, with many mountain bikers seeing this road as a challenge.

People scared of dolls should stay away from this tiny Japanese town.

One resident started making life-sized replicas of neighbors a few years ago, but now there are more than ten times the amount of doll inhabitants of the village than its human residents.

Just 27 humans remain in Nagoro, while there are over 350 dolls modeled after residents who have passed or moved away.

Near a village in Northern Lithuania, there is a mysterious tradition of placing crosses on a hill.

It’s first mentioned in writing in 1850 but many of these crosses were believed to have been placed there during the medieval period, and after a peasant uprising in 1831.

Today, there are over 100,000 crosses on the hill symbolizing Lithuanian independence.

While this glacier looks like the gruesome outcome of some form of battle, the red waterfall is a natural phenomenon, caused by high levels of iron in the water resulting in it turning crimson.

It’s a gory sight, but one of natural wonder, so it is totally safe, and an incredible thing to witness.

Perhaps nothing is as eerie as an abandoned hospital.

This one in Germany has a very rich and diverse history, once used to house tuberculosis patients, mustard gas and machine gun victims during World War II (even Adolf Hitler).

It served both the Nazi and Soviet soldiers at different times, but the place has been left to decay and rot.

Many are familiar with tours of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone around the plant, but there are those still unfamiliar with the spooky town of Pripyat.

You can look through the empty classrooms and explore homes, but the biggest attraction is the full-sized Ferris wheel which has been rusting in the town for decades.

It is an immensely spooky attraction, one that’s extra creepy since it was abandoned.

The Door to Hell sounds like the name of a new heavy metal band, but it’s an incredible natural wonder that is absolutely terrifying to behold.

After they hit a methane reserve looking for oil, Soviet scientists chose to set fire to the 230-foot crater to burn off the gas but for some reason, it has remained on fire for over forty years now.

Fans of the gothic and the macabre will enjoy this ossuary. It is the perfect scary tourist destination for them.

When the Abbot returned to the ossuary with holy soil from Jerusalem, people jumped at the chance to be buried under it.

To make room, thousand of old skeletons were dug up, while a woodcarver took on the job of arranging them in an impressive way.

If you’re looking for a theme park, but instead of fun and games, want a dark and twisted representation of morality and the consequences of evil deeds, then look no further.

This amusement park in Singapore is covered with strange statues.

They’re meant to serve as varied forms of punishment, and to teach children to avoid making bad choices for fear of being dismembered or worse.