11. Soul Park
Place: Greece’s Mount Parnitha, Athens
Period: 1930s
Expense: $0
Greece’s Athens is home to many interesting ruins, but the Park of Souls has some of the spookiest ones. These wooden statues are outside an abandoned sanitarium on Mount Parnitha. The outdoor exhibition alludes to the history of forest fires and tuberculosis in Athens while also attempting to grab people’s attention.
Greece’s Park of Souls in Athens ©Shutterstock/Bill Anastasiou
When tuberculosis (TB) was roiling Athens in the 1930s, the Parnitha Sanitorium was built to give patients sunshine and clean air. Following the pandemic, the structure saw several uses before being abandoned in the middle of the 1980s. Artist Spyridon Dassiotis built the Park of Souls to give “life” to this supposedly haunted location following a string of fires that broke out in the 2000s, causing even more destruction.
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