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Eastern Europe is a large region with many diverse destinations. Popular  travel destinations include capital cities, historic towns, and seaside resorts. Lesser-known destinations can be found scattered throughout Eastern Europe and may not have made it onto every tourist's travel map.

Eastern Europe has its share of fun and creepy places to make your skin crawl. If you're looking to add some creepy fun into your next trip to Eastern Europe, consider visiting some of these creepy places.

1. The Sedlec Ossuary

The Sedlec Ossuary (located in Sedlec, near Kutna Hora) is one of the Czech Republic's creepiest tourist attractions. This Roman Catholic Chapel is decorated almost entirely with human bones, and the effect is both beautiful and spooky. Of particular interest may be the delicate-looking chandelier made of human skulls, long bones, and shoulder blades of the deceased.

2. Capuchin Crypt

Brno, in the Moravian region of the Czech Republic, is home to many historic churches. The 17th century Capuchin Monastery is a main feature in Brno. In the buildings of the grounds, like the library and church, are frescoes, paintings, antique furnishings, and more.

The Capuchin Crypt is perhaps the monastery's biggest draw. Visitors who wish to see it should do so with caution - the bodies of monks from centuries past rest right on the floor of the crypt, mummified in the special environmental conditions of the catacombs. This is not the best excursion for young children or for those who are squeamish.

Famous and influential people have also found their final resting spot to be the Capuchin Crypt. Many of these are in coffins - and at least one of these coffins has a glass cover.

3. Kunstkammer Museum

The museum is located in St. Petersburg. While the Kunstkammer has more to it than anatomical exhibitions, it is the "scientific" collection of skeletons from siamese twins and giants, preserved animals and human body parts, and early medical instruments that ranks it among the creepiest attractions in Eastern Europe. All of the above make this museum one of the creepiest tourist attractions in Eastern Europe. The collection dates back to Peter the Great's time. May viewing it in person send more shivers down your spine than even the photos on the official Kunstkammer website. Seeing everything in person really brings shivers down to your spine.

4. Torture Museum

This museum is located in Prague, Czech Republic. Its interior is rather small, but the impression from visiting it is quite big. The Prague Torture Museum is not for the faint-of-heart. This museum contains over 60 devices of torture used in the Middle Ages from all over Europe (not only the Czech Republic). Each one is described in Czech, English, and there are other languages represented as well. Other information boards tell about torture in general, especially about witch hunts in the Middle Ages. The main idea of the Torture Museum is that human cruelty has no limits.

5. Prison Hotel (Latvia)

If you've ever wanted to re-enact the horrible, frightening experience of a prisoner in a Soviet prison, you can at the Prison Hotel  in Latvia. Its "guests" are free to subject themselves to the isolation and mustiness of the former Soviet prison, along with verbal abuse coming from the prison "guards." Guards will shove you around, yell in your face, and make you scrub toilets. This "hotel" brings to life only parts of Latvian-Soviet history, and it's a good thing. Real prisoners fared much worse under Russian guards, sleeping in a dark, damp cell was the least of their worries. While the history lesson may give schoolteachers in Latvia a reason to take their students there, the adult clientele are seekers of unusual travel experiences or journalists looking for stories.

6. Dracula Sites (Romania)

The memory of Dracula, or Vlad Tepes, can be found all over Romania. Historically Vlad the Impaler was known as a cruel ruler in the medieval Romania. He was also known as Dracula and his ways of executing were brutal. These included the stakes that were running vertically through the bodies of those who were considered guilty. A lot of legends surround the figure of Dracula and a lot of places are linked with Vlad the Impaler. All of these sites are very creepy and in addition it is interesting to note that some Romanians still believe in vampires due to the fact that the superstition is part of the local folklore. Vlad Tepes is still celebrated as one of Romania's great patriots. Visits sites associated with Vlad Tepes all over Romania if you are in search of the real Dracula.

7. Museum of Medical History (Varna, Bulgaria)

The subject concerns the unrecognised European Bulgaria whose the alone museum of History of Medicine is worth of seeing. The 1869 building is of an ancient hospital which reminds of the hundred-year-old history of the modern Bulgaria. The Varna-based museum features a collection of early medical tools, as well as ancient dental tools and a few medieval skulls that once were used in ritual drilling, a it is believed that the drilling was performed when individuals were still alive. This museum is especially creepy because it makes you fall into the past and imagine how medicine was practiced during its early years, when there were no painkillers, anesthesia and antibiotics. The miscellance of the objects, the strictness and the clearness of the show afford to follow through five rooms the development of Medicine as practice, art and science from Antiquity till the Second World War.