If you visit these places, you will consider horror stories as fairytales.
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Our planet has both places which can't but inspire you, but also there are places which look like scenes from the horror films. These are natural landscapes, which you may think are uunlikely to exist.
1. Truk Lagoon
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It's situated near the shores of the Micronesia. In the untouched tropical waters you can still find a huge necropolis of a great number of flooded ships. During the war this place used to be Japan military base. However, at the time of the offensive a great majority of ships and helicopters were flooded. The lagoon is surrounded by reefs, so the remains are still in this area. Those who aren't afraid of local sharks can admire the mysterious underwater world with skeletons and a number of bombs.
2. Darvaza
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This place is also known as "gates to hell", as this village has unusual 70 m hole with fire which has been burning for about 40 years. It happened because researchers who came across an unusual cave, unfortunately, lost their drilling rig, it just fell in it. They worried about harmful fumes emitted from the hole, so they decided to burn it. However, they couldn't guess that the fire won't be put out.
3. Namascaro
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This place is situated in Iceland near the bed of one of the volcanos. To tell the truth, all this place is a place of geothermal activity, one of the most gloomy planet landscapes. You can come across a number of basins with boiling dirt, and cracked volcanic rock with geysers of heat, gases and sulphur. Such weather conditions plus absolute uninhabitness make this place really unearthly.