First World Hotel, Genting Highlands This resort hotel is said to be haunted by the ghosts of suicide victims who lost everything at the casino. Children cry and refuse to go near parts of the hotel. Healthy guests fall ill for no apparent reason. You can smell incense, which the Chinese believe is food for ghosts. Some of the 6118 rooms are said to be cursed and the hotel never rents them out to guests, even when the hotel is at full occupancy.

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The entire 21st floor is said to be cursed, and the elevator always skips that floor, for some reason. [Image source: ]. Tambun Inn, Ipoh This three-storey hotel is located near a Chinese cemetery.

Guests report lights switching on and off. They can hear weird noises, whispering or shouting or screaming, but they can never trace the source of the noise. There are even reports of guests going to sleep in their own room and waking up in a completely different room with no recollection of how they got there. Even non-guests are affected by the hotel's energy. A man reported passing by the hotel one time on his motorbike and he felt his bike getting heavier, as if something had climbed on the back. [Image source: ]. Ghost Hill, Penang The British built a fort on top of this hill.

During World War II, a crazy Japanese officer is said to have held public beheadings on this site. He is also said to have terrorized the locals.

His ghost is said to haunt this hill, which is now a war museum. But the host of National Geographic Channel's 'I Wouldn't Go In There' says that the site is. The museum is a privately owned heritage site where bunkers and weapon nests can be seen to this day.

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'Sketching is one of my passions. I don't feel comfortable when I leave home without a sketchbook and some pens in my bag. I think that my way to put things in my memory is to draw them. And taking pictures isn't the same thing. I live in a very dynamic surrounding — Israel is a warm country with warm weather and warm people.

Of course, we have seashores, which calm us a little bit. I love to sit in a corner of some Tel-Aviv coffee shop and explore relationships: between people, their environment, between myself. All this unique local mix of cultures, languages and styles is always a great source for inspiration. You need to be fast, because, as I said, everything is very dynamic. But that's why I love it so much.

Sometimes, I look around, and I find some usual items like sugar bags or napkins. I use them in my to show the atmosphere. Sometimes I draw directly on.' • Marina's art on. 'The dictionary says that a hobby is “an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation.” Although urban sketching certainly provides both pleasure and relaxation, I don’t think of it as my hobby. I think of it more as a way of life – something that has become such a normal part of my everydayness that it shapes how I view the world.

For most of my life I had both the fear of drawing as well as the desire to draw. In 2011, inspired by Gabi Campanario’s Seattle Sketcher column, I finally decided to overcome the fear.

His drawings of Seattle – my birthplace and lifelong home – were of sights that I had seen many times, yet had never truly seen. I wanted to learn to see, and therefore experience, those locations (and any new ones that I travel to) more completely. Part 8 of the Urban Sketchers Manifesto, to “show the world, one drawing at a time,” has a flip side: Sketching enables me to see my own world, one drawing at a time. In the last four years, it is not an exaggeration to say that Urban Sketchers has changed my life. I have met and sketched with many wonderful people around the globe, either at symposiums or during other travel, because the USk network brought us together.

I sketch almost weekly with my local group, sharing sketches, art supplies and friendship. Even when I stay home and enjoy sketches online, I am still a part of that rich network, learning with every sketch about other people’s lives. In May, my husband Greg and I went to France for the first time, and I sketched the Eiffel Tower. Sketching one of the world’s most famous icons felt like a dream come true – the ultimate in urban sketching.