most people take vacations in order to relax an escape from their daily life average destinations included Illig beaches and pampering spas but some people have a wild side and prefer to brave the world's most intimidating locales today we are looking at the 10 scariest attractions in the world wash on cliffside path allows visitors to China's Mount hua to experience a truly terrifying climb to its summit it was first built over 700 years ago and is reputed to be the most dangerous hiking trail in the world because it is very steep and narrow and there is
only one safety rope to protect you from the bottomless abyss many tourists come here to challenge themselves and feel the adrenaline rush push on plank walk was first built by a Taoists priest named Asia gen more than 700 years ago with stone nails carved into the cliffs supporting the wooden plank for people to walk on now it has been improved with reinforcements but the path is still very narrow so you are literally one step away from the bottomless chasm with no protection from the guardrails in addition the walk does not lead to other paths on
the mountain which means you need to return by the way you came this becomes even more intimidating when you reach someone walking the opposite direction and you are forced to maneuver around them central China is home to one of the world's most intimidating foot bridges remarkably this is all part of an amusement park meant to attract tourists known as de chillon Fei Yue or extreme leaps it is nearly 500 feet above the ground with large slats for tourists to jump across normally the height alone is terrifying but recently the footbridge got some extremely bad press
when a tourist rope snapped a video of the terrifying incident shows the man leaping across the suspended bridge with large gaps between the planks at the Wan Sheng Ordovician theme park near Chang Jing in China it is only until the man safely makes it to the podium on the other end of the bridge that he notices the harness had detached there was no safety net beneath the bridge which is about 500 feet above the rocks below an investigation by government officials found theme park staff hadn't attached the safety cord properly the South China Morning Post
reported however a staff member with the propaganda Bureau at the Wan Shang Economic Development zone told the Beijing News the video was a publicity stunt aimed to raise the theme parks profile if it's a marketing ploy I hope it closes down soon someone wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo The Post reported in fact it has since been proven that it was not a marketing stunt and the park has been closed down suicide forest is the location in Japan that has received great media attention due to a strange coincidence it is the place in the
world with the second highest frequency of suicides while the density of the trees and the often treacherous terrain in Aoki ihara forests make it hard to determine an exact number of suicides the number of dead bodies that are found is shockingly high in 2003 alone 105 bodies were found in the forest with a nickname like suicide forest it seems like Aoki Yahara forest is a hugely popular suicide spot but it's actually not the biggest suicide destination in the world the suicide forest is said to be the second most common destination for suicides with the Golden
Gate Bridge taking the number one spot unsurprisingly Aoki GU Hara is reportedly haunted the forest is reportedly inhabited by Ouray or ghosts with unfinished business who are unable to enjoy peace in the afterlife while many people attribute the strange behavior of their compasses to paranormal activity in the forest there's actually a more logical explanation because of the high iron content of the lava on the forest floor devices that respond to magnetism like compasses often move in strange patterns when near it the suicide forest is so well known that it's frequently referenced in books games songs
and other media the forests worldwide notoriety has even given rise to mentions in countless popular films including 47 Ronin before stand Gus Van Sant's 2015 sea of trees featuring Matthew McConaughey volcano surfing or volcano boarding is a sport performed at volcano slopes the most popular slope is the Serra Negra near Lyon in western Nicaragua riders hike up the volcano and slide down sitting or standing on a thin plywood or metal board Nicaragua is known as the land of lakes and volcanoes it isn't by chance there are 19 active volcanoes scattered around the country of these
a few surround Lyon and some are close to the Granada Nicaragua tourist hotspot and to make up Ometepe Island this is the only place in the world where you can sit upright on plywood feet-first in Khost down a cinder a flank of a still active volcano says Nick Porter an affable chain-smoking tour guide who left his job at a bank in Manchester England in 2013 went travelling and never returned according to CNN volcano boarding is listed number two on the list of extreme sports you must do before you die National Geographic Channel adventurer in journalist
Zoltan Istvan credits himself with inventing the volcano boarding sport on Mount Yasser on the island of Tanna in Pinal - in 2002 bela Stephane first visited the active volcano in 1995 he filmed his adventure and it later aired on the National Geographic Channel in a five-minute news segment perched at the top of the stratosphere tower in Las Vegas is one of the world's most daunting attractions like a 1,000 foot high teeter-totter x-scream drops eight riders 27 feet over the edge of the stratosphere tower then rises up and rolls back then repeats three times total with
a couple of surprises along the way at a height of approximately 866 feet it is officially the world's third highest amusement ride we wanted to build one of the most intense attractions in the world Mike Gilmartin public relations manager for the stratospheric said X screen is a new generation of extreme thrill rides we feel that it's a very imposing ride and also a very psychological ride it plays on a passenger's primal fear of falling before it pulls you back from the edge conceived in the year 2000 the ride cost just under three million dollars to
construct construction of x-scream began on the ground as various pieces were put together the parts were lifted via helicopter where they were assembled on top of the tower the entire process of lifting the pieces and building the ride only took two hours including a 40-minute refuelling period for the helicopter the total weight of the ride is 50,000 pounds but nearly that much weight in the form of concrete and steel was removed to make room for the attraction a few miles from the heart of Mexico City lies la Isla de las Monachus the island of dolls
where thousands of dolls hang from the trees the island located in the og Milko canals outside of Mexico's capital is truly the stuff of pure terror according to local legend the islands caretaker dun Whovian Santana moved to the island in the 1950s after abandoning his family who was in the canals outside of the island that he found the dead body of a drowned girl and her doll convinced that her spirit haunted the island Santana hung abandoned dolls he found throughout the canal as a way to appease the dead girl's soul the dolls strung up in
the deteriorated condition that Santana found the men continued to hold the silent vigil on trees and buildings throughout the island Don Julio and Santana began collecting lost dolls from the canals and the trash near his Island home he's also said to have traded produce he drew two locals for more dolls Santana did not clean up the dolls or attempt to fix them but rather put them up with missing eyes and limbs covered in dirt and generally in whatever ramshackle state he found them in even when dolls arrived in good shape the wind and weather turned
them into cracked and distorted versions of themselves in 2001 Santana was found drowned in the river Bethesda in the United Kingdom is home to zip World velocity the fastest zip line in the world and the longest in Europe it has been dubbed as the nearest thing to flying other than a skydive it is clocked in speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour found within its breathtaking spot more than 1,000 feet off expect adrenaline stunning views across the Menai Strait and possibly a few screams as you fly headfirst down a mountain before taking to the
big zipper try out the smaller but still thrilling little zipper to get a taste of the experience reaching speeds of up to 40 miles per hour according to the founder the brand new experience features custom-made technology developed by our world-class team to increase speed accessibility and comfort for our riders and spectators alike the zipline is so popular that the company has opened to more locations across the United Kingdom with a steeper decline velocity to lets visitors travel from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under 10 seconds before reaching the top speed of 125 miles
per hour equal to the legal limit for standard trains in the UK and 5 miles per hour faster than the speed at which you fall when skydiving zip world also has doubled the capacity of the zipline meaning that four people can enjoy a flight at the same time Sean Taylor the co-founder of zip world said velocity 2 is the fastest zipline in the world and it's right here in North Wales the adventure capital of Europe smack in the middle of Tennessee is one of the world's craziest attractions a roller coaster zipline the flying ox located
in Pigeon Forge Tennessee is the world's first cable to rail zipline roller coaster according to a press release the flying ox takes fearless riders 80 feet in the air for a 1,000 foot long ride instead of travelling in a straight line riders wind drop in soar through the air at approximately 15 miles an hour the roller-coaster zipline fuses the fast free flying sensation of a zipline with the ups downs and turns of a roller coaster giving the rider the ultimate thrill of flying opened by paula deen's lumberjack feud show in Adventure Park the flying ox
was inspired by the history of the Smoky Mountain logging industry the theme park also includes a log roll in boom run a lumberjack themed ropes course speed climb towers and a simulated freefall from an 80-foot tall jump platform Colorado is home to another aerial attraction the royal rush sky coaster suite 50 miles per hour through the Rocky Mountain air in a freefall momentarily dangling 1,200 feet above the arkansas river on this one-of-a-kind attraction this thrilling experience doesn't have the title of the world's scariest sky coaster for nothing ever since the Royal Gorge Bridge opened in
1929 humankind has sought to make what already is a hair-raising adventure even more of a thrill they've done it illegally parachuting off the bridge or flying under it in an airplane or they've done it legally by trying some of the parks I poppin Adventure rides several parachutists have jumped from the bridge illegally it is not a feat that is encouraged due to the gorgeous unpredictable winds when it comes to legal thrills perhaps the most frightening is the Royal rush sky coaster dubbed the world's scariest sky coaster ride it costs six hundred thousand dollars to build
and debuted in 2003 at the apex of the swing it gives riders a view that is about 13 red feet down into the gorge a reduced gravity aircraft is a type of fixed-wing aircraft that provides brief nail weightless environments for training astronauts conducting research and making gravity free movie shots versions of such airplanes were operated by the NASA reduced gravity research program and one is currently operated by the human spaceflight and robotic exploration programs of the European Space Agency the unofficial nickname vomit comet became popular among those who experienced their operation how can weightlessness be
achieved the parabolic flight is an aerobatic maneuver that customers can also request during fighter jet flights only small parabola is possible there and you can only float within the constraints of your seat belts other larger aircraft allow thrill-seekers to float for extended periods of time
