they say home is where the heart is but that's not always true
the heart is inside your body otherwise you'd be dead
and being dead is no fun it's for losers i would never do it it's far better to
be alive even if you live somewhere that could
soon cause your death across the world many people call such
places home and it's those places we today look at
from a home that's awful to a home that's awful
here are the most dangerous homes in the world
atop a stone pillar in the small country of Georgia can be found a church
standing 130 feet the pillar was chosen in medieval times as the perfect site
for a hermitage a place where monks live in total
seclusion until the 1500s monks lived and died here isolated from
the outside world then for hundreds of years the church
was abandoned until 1995 when a local monk returned to the pillar
restoring the small church he has lived there ever since
that might sound like a fun way to live but
it's incredibly dangerous not only is it a tiny patch of land surrounded by a
sheer drop the only way to reach the top is by
climbing a ridiculous ladder
speaking of a tiny patch of land the smallest inhabited island in the world
is called just Room Enough island found on the
river dividing new York and Ontario there are many small islands here but
this one is unique barely enough room for the house itself
the island has only a small amount of land beyond it
and only at low tide at high tide the water surrounds the house totally
so it's not a great place to live but for some reason a family does
and their surname is sizeland apparently in the 1950s they bought the island
and soon decided it would be the perfect place to build a house
i think we can all agree they were wrong
earlier this year a cliff edge in southern England collapsed
leaving 20 homes uninhabitable and one house literally hanging over the edge
the problem is the coast is constantly eroding so while these homes are once a
safe distance away decades of crashing waves gradually ate
away at the cliff but even with the cliff edge inching
closer the houses were still inhabited then one night in may 2020 a huge
section of the cliff crumbled leaving one of the most dangerous homes in the world
On the side of a Chinese mountain there
is an ancient Buddhist monastery for 1500 years it's been perched on a
sheer edge 246 feet above ground
propped up by wooden pillars drilled into the mountain
it's amazing the monastery hasn't collapsed it's said that for most of its
history visitors were too scared to enter having
never seen anything like it but still many monks have called it home
we can only imagine how many of them fell to their death
seven years ago a large construction site was cleared out in the middle of
Istanbul at three hundred thousand square meters
it was entirely cleared apart from one house the house in
question was owned by a man called Aladdin
who refused to move out no matter how much money was offered
unable to force him out they simply began construction
while leaving his home untouched and as this immense construction job commenced
he carried on living there but as you'd imagine living in a construction site
so big is just not safe and eventually even Aladdin decided to move out
but only after a three and a half year standoff
it's an inspiring story one that achieves nothing
but inspiring nonetheless
in the mountains of northern Italy stands an eerie abandoned mansion in the
19th century it was owned by a local count
but before its construction was even finished a
series of tragic events began to unfold first the buildings architect suddenly
died then in 1862 the count returned home one
day to find his wife murdered and his daughter missing unable
to find the daughter he took his own life
abandoned shortly after all kinds of rumors began to spread
it was said a group of witches had taken it over practicing
all kinds of violent rituals there at night the occultist Aleister Crowley
spent time there in the 1920s and locals feared entering the home
believing some kind of dark force surrounded it
that belief was fortified when in 2002 an
avalanche destroyed every nearby home apart from this one
in rural Serbia a tiny wooden house sits atop an almost equally small rock
in the middle of a river it seems like even a slight rise in the tide could
destroy it and there's a good reason for that since
it was first built in 1968 it has been destroyed seven times by
flooding yet was rebuilt each time the house was originally built
by a group of local swimmers who needed a shelter when conditions got rough
one of the smallest islands of japan is called Aogashima
at less than four square miles the entire island is essentially a volcano
a still active volcano and inside that still active volcano is a village
170 people call this village home despite the real possibility of an
eruption it's unknown how long humans have lived
here but the last eruption was in 1785. at the time 327 people lived here but
the eruption killed more than 120 still the Japanese don't fear volcanoes
and for those who live there now the island is a virtual paradise
just off the coast of France this is said to be the world's most dangerous
lighthouse built in the early 1900s its surrounding
waters have long been notorious its construction was financed by a
wealthy local who almost dies in a shipwreck himself
since then countless ships have been saved by its guiding light
but for the keepers who called it home life was constantly perilous
huge waves lashing its entrance is a regular occurrence
making entry and exit potentially deadly
in the middle of New York is a seemingly ordinary house
from the outside it appears just like any other but no
this is the house of death since it was first built in the 1850s
22 people have died in this house and according to local legends
each of their ghosts now haunt it many former residents have reported ghostly
encounters with sightings going back to the early
1900s they describe an immediate ominous
feeling on entering the home, the smell of rotting flesh, and pale
white ghosts through generations of strange deaths
and ghostly encounters it came to be known as the most haunted house in New York