Creepiest attractions around the world

photo by Ruben Quinonez

Speaking of Halloween attractions in Southern California, most people think of the Knott's Scarry Farm Haunt or Disneyland's Haunted Mansion or The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor. But there are more creepiest attrations in the world, ranging from churches, catacombs, museums to crime scenes, that will give even the bravest visitors the shivers.

According the Travel+Leisure magazine, here's the list of the world's creepiest attractions:

1. Capela dos Ossos, Evora, Portugal (truly creepy: 2 rotted corpses, of an unknown man and a young child, dangle precariously from nooses)
2. Torture Museum, Amsterdam (truly creepy: the disturbing illustrations include one of a naked man hung from his ankles like a wishbone and being sawed in half lengthwise)
3. Port Arthur Historic Sites, Tasmania (truly creepy: the most-often reported ghost sightings are not of convicts but of a crying woman and young child)
4. The Museum of Death, Hollywood (truly creepy: the self-guilded tour takes only an hour, but the truly gore-obsessed can linger over videos of autopsies and actual death footage)
5. Museo de las Momias, Mexico (truly creepy: the tiny baby mummies, dressed in local tradition as "Little Angels")
6. Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA (truly creepy: paranormal activity is the norm for overnight guests who hear organ music and witness moving lights, turning doorknobs and ghostly figures)
7. Capuchin Catacombs, Sicily (truly creepy: "Sleeping Beauty," the miraculously intact body of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, who died in 1920)
8. Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize (truly creepy: if the bats and spiders don't put you over the edge, the ancient ceramic bowls have "kill holes," indicating they were used for bloodletting rituals)
9. Sedle Ossuary, Czech Republic (truly creepy: a garland of gap-eyed skulls hangs from the vaulted ceilings, and the massive bone pyramids put "40,000 skeletons" into perspective)
10. Mutter Museum, Philadelphia (truly creepy: The Soap Lady's 19th-century remains that turned into a soap-like substance called adipocere, also known as "grave wax")