11 Breathtakingly Beautiful Places That Will Kill You Horribly

3. Alnwick Poison Garden - UK

Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, UK, will be known to many as one of the filming locations for Harry Potter. In real life, it has a special type of botanical garden that would make even Severus Snape nervous.

The Poison Garden was added in 2005 and contains some of the deadliest substances known to man. Some of them are so lethal that they have to be kept behind bars.

Species include nux vomica (strychnine), hemlock, ricinus communis (ricin), foxglove, atropa belladonna, brugmansia, and laburnum. It also contains many plants used as both legal and illegal drugs including cannabis, coca and the opium poppy.

Of course, this stuff isn't going to leap up and stab you in the kidneys, it'll only kill those who are stupid enough to touch or eat it, but it takes all sorts to make a world.

Its creator, the Duchess of Northumberland said:

'I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill... I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be.'

Who said the aristocracy weren't hardcore?

Cause of death: Poisoning and your own stupidity.