I went to stay with a German family in Recklinghausen once, and the basement of their house scared the bejesus out of me. It was just one loooooooong corridor with rooms opening off either side, all the way down until you reached a room at the other side where they hung the wet bath towels to dry. They always put my towel down there and every time I wanted to take a bath, I had to go down that incredibly long hallway and get it...and believe me, I blazed a trail down that hall and back! I never stopped long enough to look and see what was in each room, but the whole place just gave me the creeps because I felt like something was going to jump out at me. It looked sort of like a prison or something.
