Two first class tickets to hell, please…
You know, I like top ten lists as much as anybody else, but I have to wonder who thought this one was useful. We have this story on somebody’s list of the top ten “Hell on Earth” spots.
You could knock me over with a feather, but it turns out you should avoid Papua New Guinea. It seems they have lots of disease, and wild gangs that use machine guns in bank robberies. Another bad place is Chernobyl, Ukraine, unless you enjoy radiation much more than most people do.
Also make a note to bypass Yakutsk, Russia, even if it means an inconvenient detour. Temperatures often drop below -58 degrees Fahrenheit there.
But wait, there are more surprises! Another hell on Earth is a place called Baghdad, in Iraq! “Uh-oh, Sweetie! Is it too late to get our deposit back on that package deal to Iraq, Somalia, Burundi and Oklahoma?”
Gas masks are seen in a kindergarten in the abandoned town of Pripyat, in the 19-mile exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in a 2006 photo (top left.) REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Aerial view of a house being carried with ice by the waters of the Lena river outside Yakutsk in a 2001 photo (bottom left.) REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev










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