Imagine you’ve watched Scariest Places in America and are curious if the rest of the world is even more terrifying. Well, you’re in for a thrilling adventure. This Tubi special is your ticket to explore the most spine-chilling places on the planet.

Here are the places covered in this movie:

10. Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania: Commonly known outside Transylvania as Dracula’s Castle, Bram Stoker probably didn’t know anything about this castle. It doesn’t have anything to do with Vlad the Impaler either, who, contrary to popular belief, never even went here. Starting this list with this is, well…not a grand opening. Don’t listen to the paranormal experts in this like Alex Matsuo. There are some great clips of vampire movies, at least.

9. Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA: Maybe Alcatraz held America’s most dangerous criminals for over twenty years, but is it haunted? Or is it just charged with the negative energy of its prison population? The U.S. is the world leader in mass incarceration by nearly five times more the closest competitor. While the number peaked in 2008, in 2016, the World Prison Population List stated that America has 21.0% of the world’s prisoner population despite representing only around 4.4% of the world’s population. That’s more than a ghost scary.

They show some American locations that were left off the list, such as the Queen Mary, Tonopah Cemetery, the Clown Motel and the Lemp Mansion. For more of those places, watch Scariest Places in America.

8. Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland: The most besieged castle in Britain, with 23 attacks throughout Scotland’s history, houses the country’s crown jewels, protects the Royal Family and serves as a prison and barracks. There are tunnels underneath where a bagpiper disappeared; some claim you can still hear him at night. It’s also a place where plenty of torture and bubonic plague have been lived through.

7. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt: A man in early 20th-century clothing has been seen by visitors, and he’s rumored to be the ghost of Howard Carter, the explorer who found the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Others have seen an orb apparition of an Egyptian Pharaoh floating away from the pyramids toward the Valley of the Kings. The special has Dr. Sarah Burdorff, Tawny Lewis — who refers to Indiana Jones as “the Raider of the Ark” — and Conner Gossel discuss plenty more. Maybe we should all remember the words of King Diamon, who once sang, “Don’t touch, never ever steal / Unless you’re in for the kill / Or you’ll be hit by the curse of the Pharaohs / Yes you’ll be hit, and the curse is on you.”

6. Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo, Sicily: This is where monks’ and friars’ bodies were dehydrated on ceramic pipe racks and washed with vinegar. Some of the dead were embalmed, and others were enclosed in sealed glass cabinets, making them seem alive. There are  8,000 corpses and 1,252 mummies in the catacombs, including painter Giuseppe Velasco and “Sleeping Beauty” Rosalia Lombardo, a young girl who still appears to be alive. Families could have access to these dead bodies and hold hands with them when they prayed on holy days.

5. Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan: The base of the bad guy in Skyfall, this island is also known as Gunkanjima or Battleship Island. In 1959, it reached a peak population of 5,259 before the coal mines under it were used up. Everyone left, and the buildings were left behind, as the abandoned island eventually became a tourist attraction. It also appeared in the live-action version of Attack on Titan.

4. The Tower of London, London, England: There are 13 ghosts in the Tower of London, which feels like a very PR-friendly number. They are Anne Boleyn, Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Lord Guildford Dudley, Margaret Pole, The White Lady, Princes Edward V and Richard the Duke of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Grey Lady, Arbella Stuart, Guy Fawkes, a grizzled bear — yes, really — and something called The Smothering Force, which is an excellent name for a band.

3. Pripyat, Ukraine: Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 before the Chernobyl disaster. It was evacuated and moved to Slavutych. It’s somewhat famous because they left behind a theme park, which appears in A Good Day to Die Hard, Chernobyl Diaries and Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. It’s also a level in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and the setting for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

2. La Isla de Las Munceas, Xochilico, Mexico: Jeremy Lamb, a supernatural influencer, is on hand to explain the Island of the Dolls. Don Julian Santana left his family behind and became a hermit on an island that was part of Teshuilo Lake, paying tribute to a young girl who drowned in the lake, even if many say he just imagined the girl. He collected and hung up hundreds of dolls all over the island. In 2001, he drowned in the same place where the girl supposedly died.

1. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, WV: I call BS on this list because this was the second on the Scariest Places In America, and it’s number one here. USA? USA! One could argue our entire country is the most frightening place in the world, a place where half the population believes in the right to life and the need to own guns at the same time, that denies that the world is being destroyed by pollution and yet thinks that people are drinking the blood of children. I think that’s a little more frightening than a haunted mental institution — not that I ever want to go there — but this film filled with stock video and herky-jerky possessed footage will certainly make a case for this place over, you know, Texas or Florida.

Anyways, if you want to travel the world and continually poop your pants, consider this your travel agent.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Sources

Is it possible to visit Hashima Island? – Fdotstokes.com. https://www.fdotstokes.com/2022/10/12/is-it-possible-to-visit-hashima-island/

Pripyat – Other & Architecture Background Wallpapers on Desktop Nexus (Image 2325640). https://architecture.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/2325640/

Mexico’s Island of the Dolls | RetreaTours. https://www.retreatours.com/dolls/