Guided by Voices: Architecture for Ghosts and the Spirit World

Have you ever been in a building that doesn’t have a thirteenth floor? Even in modern skyscrapers in the United States, some superstitions like this have persisted in the construction. In China, since the number four sounds almost like the word for death, many buildings will similarly lack this level.

All over the world, different cultures have their own ways of adapting architecture to beliefs in demons, specters, and ghosts. Here are six places guided by spirits. 

Source: Atlas Obscura