Signs are designed to be practical and provide directions or information, or in some cases crucial warnings.
But sometimes sign makers get it all wrong, leading to creepy and confusing posters.
People from all over the world have shared the most ominous signs they’ve noticed Bored Panda collected the best in an online gallery.
One of them has a sign saying ‘don’t feed the baby to the crocodile’, which was spotted in an American zoo.
Elsewhere, a creepy board of mannequins was found in a disused nuclear bunker, in Essex.
While a sign was spotted on the Bucklin Trail, in Killington Vermontassured hikers that the trail was “the point of no return.”
People from all over the world have been tearing up the most ominous signs they’ve seen, and Bored Panda has collected the best of them into an online gallery. Includes a ‘don’t feed the baby to the crocodile’ sign spotted in a US zoo
A door, chained shut, at The California Institute of the Arts, warned people of a 13-foot fall on the other side.
Elsewhere, a bizarre sign was seen in a hotel toilet asking people not to drink the toilet water.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the terrifying danger signs from around the world…
A chained door at the California Institute of the Arts warned people of a 13-foot fall on the other side
Another terrifying warning turned super graphic when it emerged that a machine ‘doesn’t know the difference between paper and meat’
A warning no one should need! Elsewhere, a bizarre sign was seen in a hotel bathroom asking people not to drink toilet water
A customer spotted this bizarre sign while browsing with his child
While this sign was spotted in Chicago, near the former site of the Argonne National Laboratory, an early site used for the Manhattan Project (a program to produce the first nuclear weapons during World War II)
This sign was spotted in Australia warning people about ‘unexploded ordnance’ in the area
Elsewhere, a creepy board of mannequins was found in a disused nuclear bunker, in Essex
Another ominous sign asked parents to get their children into this “cage-free daycare.”
While a sign on the Bucklin Trail, in Killington Vermont, assured hikers that the trail was ‘the point of no return’
This funny warning sign added a bit of humor asking people to fill a bait bag with angry bees so thieves could find them
While these new homeowners were clearly fed up with a certain clientele coming to their home