13 Famous Places With Dark Secrets In Their Past

We aren't ones to judge, but every picture you take at these monuments makes you a monster.
13 Famous Places With Dark Secrets In Their Past

When it comes to sightseeing, protocol dictates that you stare at the monument, take a picture in front of said monument, see if you can make a penis joke about it, then move along to do other asshole tourist-y stuff. Nothing in there about actually learning the history behind the landmark.

Which is all the better. Because learning about those monuments on the spot might make for a depressing vacation. For example ...

CRACKEDcO The Blue Mustang statue has tasted blood. Locals call him Blucifer. The red-eyed fierce-faced 9, 00-pound sculpture at Denver Internationa
CRACKED James Smithson is entombed in the Smithsonian. acre' ta b AMmer'y ond Murinon sroe e hoyol Jocity ros In a crypt just inside the north entranc
CRACKEDcO The River Thames is full of bodies. The most famous river in England has been nicknamed by The Guardian The Watery Grave. It has some 60 d
CRACKEDcO The Little Mermaid Statue is constantly being mutilated. What is considered the Statue of Liberty of Denmark has been a target of gruesome v

Gibraltar Point

CRACKEDe The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is the site of Toronto's first unsolved murder. Centuries ago, the keeper of the lighthouse vanished with noth
CRACKEDO The Eiffel Tower was a popular suicide spot. The Eiffel Tower holds a death toll of over 350 suicides, some of whom chose to hang themselves
Coney Island is the site of a gruesome fire. SHOWING DIVERS AT WORM UNDER WATER CONEY ISLAND'S BIGGEST FIRE DISASTER FIGHTING THE FLAMES AT DREAMLAND
Mt. Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist. Gutzon Borglum, the man that sculpted Mount Rushmore, was a racist who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan
CRACKEDGO The Great Wall of China is actually a great cemetery. It is estimated around 400,000 construction workers had died building the Great Wall,
CRACKEDcO Part of the University of Cambridge was built over a massive graveyard. Beneath the Old Divinity School at St. John's College lies one of th

Venice

CRACKEDCO The Bridge Of sighs was built for prisoners. That pretty Venice bridge-known for gondolas, honeymoons, and yes, appearing in Madonna's Like
Westminster Abbey turned black from killer smog. Britain's greatest church was once more black and yellow than Wiz Khalifa in Pittsburgh. The cause of

The Alps

CRACKEDc The Alps are hiding dead soldiers from World War l. There were 150, 000 deaths on the Alpine front during WW1. A third of those were battle v
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