43 Creepiest Locations Around The World To Be Actually Used In Film

24. Craco, Italy – The Abandoned Medieval Ghost Town

Once a thriving medieval village, Craco now stands eerily abandoned, its crumbling stone buildings, deserted streets, and precariously perched ruins making it a hauntingly perfect backdrop for films like The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Craco was gradually abandoned due to landslides, earthquakes, and economic decline, leaving behind an empty husk of a town frozen in time. Despite its desolation, visitors report an unnerving feeling of being watched, as if the spirits of former residents never left. The wind howls through broken windows, and the silence is deafening—except for the occasional whispers and footsteps heard when no one else is around. Craco’s eerily preserved ruins and tragic past make it a location where the veil between past and present, life and death, feels dangerously thin.