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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/2/6/631826.jpg?v=2)
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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/4/629184.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/3/629183.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/1/629181.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/0/629180.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDe The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is the site of Toronto's first unsolved murder. Centuries ago, the keeper of the lighthouse vanished with noth](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/6/629186.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/8/629178.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/7/629177.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/2/629182.jpg?v=2)
![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,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/6/629176.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/5/629175.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCO The Bridge Of sighs was built for prisoners. That pretty Venice bridge-known for gondolas, honeymoons, and yes, appearing in Madonna's Like](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/2/629172.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/3/629173.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/5/629185.jpg?v=2)