Haunted Near You: America

The whole theme park turns after dark — six haunted houses, six scare zones, and roller coasters running in the black.

Tampa's headline Halloween event, now in its final nights for 2026. New this year: Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape. Separately ticketed, adult-leaning intensity.

A 60-acre horror park in the woods: a haunted asylum, a bayou, a demon's revenge — and zombie paintball.

Six attractions including Ravenhill Asylum, Bloodwater Bayou and Killgore's 3D Circus, plus the Bonzo's Bizarre midway. Interactive scares — actors can touch you in marked attractions.

The phantom Sir Henry haunts his own miniature horror theme park — three outdoor trails through the dark, about a mile of walking in all.

A nonprofit haunt (since 2014) and USA Today 10Best winner, with three trails, a haunted hayride, escape games and axe throwing. Online timed tickets only.

A haunted house aboard a real 1945 WWII Victory ship — this year's story turns it into the prison ship “The Iron Widow.”

Wind through cell blocks and steel decks of an actual warship docked behind the Florida Aquarium. The ship museum itself is open year-round; the haunt is Halloween season only.

The only tour holding keys to the Cuban Club — “Club Dead,” said to hold 150+ ghosts — and the locked José Martí Park after dark.

Nightly walking tour through Ybor's haunted brick streets, running since 2005. EMF detectors and spirit boxes are provided. Meets at King Corona Cigars on 7th Ave.

Gangster Charlie Wall still walks the old courthouse, and Tampa Theatre's projectionist never left his booth.

A one-hour “Tides of Tethered Terror” walk through downtown's haunted landmarks — Tampa Theatre, the Hotel Flor, Old City Hall. Exterior stops, rain or shine.

Builder Thomas Rowe built the “Pink Palace” for his lost love Lucinda — guests still report the two of them, hand in hand, by the beach at dusk.

The 1928 Gulf-front landmark reopened in March 2025 after its hurricane closure. Rowe, in a white suit, is the most-reported sighting. Book a room and keep your own hours with him.

Baseball players keep meeting the same translucent man in 1930s formal dress and a top hat — one pitcher woke to a presence sitting on his chest.

The 1925 grand resort on the St. Pete waterfront is famous in MLB clubhouses for its ghost reports, including a Lady in White. A stay here is the haunt.

Phantom footsteps and doors that move on their own inside the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel — the silver-minaret landmark across the river.

The museum's seasonal “Eerie Evening” opens 13 rooms after dark with Victorian mourning customs, spiritualism, a Poe ghost and a clue mystery. Ages 14+. The museum itself is open year-round.

Projectionist Foster “Fink” Finley died in his booth in 1965 — and, by many accounts, never stopped working it. Watch seat 308.

The 1926 movie palace runs its “Ghosts of Tampa Theatre” tour as part of A Nightmare on Franklin Street, Oct 19–31, 2026. The theatre screens films year-round.

An actor who hanged himself on its stage, a murdered board member, a lady in red heels, a boy who drowned in the old pool — often named among America's most haunted buildings.

The 1917 club is an event venue with no daily public admission; the way inside after dark is the Official Ybor City Ghost Tour (listed with the Tampa tours above), which holds the keys.

Tampa's first public burial ground (1850): a mayor, a governor, pirates, yellow-fever victims — and Charles Owen, hanged in 1882, still reported among the stones.

Around 1,700 graves in the middle of downtown. Free to visit in daylight; guided walking tours on scheduled dates dig into the documented history, including gangster Charlie Wall.

Help Bess contact Harry Houdini from beyond — finish the otherworldly trials in 60 minutes, or the door to the hotel closes forever.

A 60-minute room for 2–8 players in downtown Tampa. The same venue runs “Mountain Top Murders” if you want your scares with a crime scene instead.

You're in the basement of cannibal killer Eddie “Hambone” Hamm — and he's part of the game, live in the room with you.

A 60-minute horror escape with a live scare actor. The same location's DIEner room adds optional zombie scares. Not for the faint of heart — or under-16s without nerve.

The biggest Halloween event in the country turns 35 — ten haunted houses, and icons Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow running the same deranged carnival for the first time.

Universal's separately ticketed after-dark event, this year themed the Infernal Carnival of Nightmares, with houses for Hellraiser and Stranger Things 5 among the ten. Runs 6:30 PM to 2 AM; not recommended for under-13s.

Five haunted houses and six scare zones take over the marine park after dark — plus Mako, Pipeline and Ice Breaker running in the black.

SeaWorld's separately ticketed Halloween event: four all-new houses for 2026, roaming hordes, themed bars and the Monster Stomp show. Adult-leaning intensity; guest costumes aren't admitted.

The family-friendly one: trick-or-treat trails through Magic Kingdom, the Boo-to-You parade, and the Sanderson Sisters conjuring on the castle stage.

Disney's separately ticketed after-hours party — fireworks, rare character meet-and-greets, costumes welcome for all ages. Disney lists every 2026 party night as sold out; the official page is where 2027 dates will land.

A Victorian haunted house open all year — two floors of live actors and animatronics, plus “The Last Ride,” a coffin simulator that buries you alive in the dark.

In Old Town Kissimmee, minutes from the theme parks, scaring just as hard in February as in October. Not recommended for children under 13.

A whole town of mediums: founded in 1894 and called the Psychic Capital of the World — 57 acres of Victorian cottages where talking with the dead is the local trade.

The camp runs daytime history walks and the Friday-night “Cassadaga After Dark: Find the Spirits” tour among the mediums' homes. Readings with resident mediums book separately.

Often called Florida's most haunted house: little Jessie May died here in 1895, and the attic holds “Mr. Nasty,” an entity even the staff won't visit alone.

An 1856 Victorian home turned museum — 14 rooms of period artifacts by day, ghost tours Friday and Saturday nights, and late-night investigations by appointment.

Climb the tower in total darkness — keeper Joseph Andreu fell from it, and the Pittee girls drowned at its base during construction. Both are still reported on the stairs.

The only regular tour with night access to the tower top, 1.5–2 hours. More nights run in peak season. About three hours from Tampa — and worth every mile at least once.

Ghost Hunters and the Travel Channel both came calling: keeper's spirits, a “bloody bedroom,” and 177 steps up a tower that took Civil War cannon fire.

The after-dark Ghost Hunt explores the 1869 Keeper's Quarters and climbs the tower — about two hours, ages 13+. The lighthouse stands on Naval Air Station Pensacola: civilians ride a shuttle in and need photo ID.

Mobster Thomas “Fatty” Walsh was shot dead on the 13th floor in 1929 — guests still report him moving luggage and standing over beds, and a Lady in White walks the halls.

The 1926 Coral Gables landmark served as a WWII hospital before returning to luxury — golf course, spa, and one of the largest hotel pools in the country. Book a room and test the 13th floor yourself.

Robert is the world's most haunted doll: visitors ask his permission before taking his photo — and the museum keeps the apology letters from people who didn't.

The unfinished Civil War fort is Robert's home behind glass. See him by day, or book the after-dark Robert the Doll Experience at the fort for the personal encounter.

Ninety minutes through Old Town's haunted corners — the Artist House where Robert the Doll lived, the island's oldest graveyard, and the Watcher waiting at Hemingway's first home.

A locally run nightly walking tour with dowsing rods and spirit experiments along the way. Family-friendly, and skeptics do fine — the history underneath the stories checks out.

Ride the Trolley of the Doomed past the Huguenot and Tolomato cemeteries, then step inside the Old Jail — often called the most haunted building in the nation's oldest city.

Old Town Trolley's nightly ghost tour: about 80 minutes with a Ghost Host, including Potter's Wax Museum's Chamber of Horrors and the Old Jail after dark. Departs from 8 PM; reservations required, PG-13.

The original Ripley's museum fills the old Castle Warden hotel — where two women died in a 1944 fire, and staff still report their ghosts among the shrunken heads and curiosities.

Three stories and 800+ oddities, from Robert Ripley's own collection. The museum also runs a Haunted Castle Investigation after dark — part museum, part ghost hunt, open in every season.

Taxidermy in a fez, antique medical instruments, ethically sourced skulls and a megalodon tooth — Ybor's oddities shop is part store, part cabinet of curiosities.

A collective of artists working in the macabre, upstairs on 7th Ave in the middle of Ybor's haunted blocks. Free to browse — the hard part is leaving without a specimen jar.

“The dark side of comic con”: one of the country's longest-running horror conventions lands on Halloween weekend itself — celebrity guests, 200+ vendors, tattoo artists and a zombie walk.

Spooky Empire has run since 2003 and returns to the Hyatt Regency Orlando for Halloween weekend 2026. Panels, film screenings, costume contests with cash prizes — kids 10 and under get in free.

Florida's Bigfoot has a headquarters: plaster footprint casts, sighting reports and the Shealy family's famous Myakka photograph — studied dead seriously in a swamp-side gift shop.

The world HQ for skunk ape research, out on the Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress. Evidence room up front, an animal exhibit out back with giant gators and Goldie, a 350-pound reticulated python. Open daily, 9 to 5.

One small man, working alone at night for 28 years, quarried, carved and moved 1,100 tons of coral rock — including a 9-ton gate balanced to swing at a touch. Nobody has ever explained how.

Edward Leedskalnin built Florida's Stonehenge for the fiancée who left him the day before their wedding: a Polaris telescope, the world's only sundial with seasons, and furniture carved from living rock. Guided tours run all day.

A working castle built from junk: artist Howard Solomon raised its shining walls from discarded aluminum printing plates and filled it with punning sculptures and 80 stained-glass windows.

Guided tours run through the castle and galleries, and lunch is served aboard the Boat in the Moat — a full-size galleon replica out front. Cash only, and it closes Mondays plus August and September, so time this one between October and July.

Live mermaids have performed underwater ballet in this spring since 1947 — breathing through air hoses and waving from the depths, watched from a theater sunk right into the spring.

One of Florida's original roadside attractions, now a state park: mermaid shows daily, a river boat cruise, and Buccaneer Bay's spring-fed slides in summer. Arrive early — the gates close when the park hits capacity.

More than 800 hand-painted bowling balls line the yard of a quiet Safety Harbor home that two artists have spent decades turning into a technicolor art environment.

Mosaic walkways, bottle trees and glittering sculptures — and it's still a real residence, opened to the public free in daylight hours. Walk the grounds, take the photos, and be kind to the neighbors.

A prehistoric spring hidden inside a dry cave: you descend a staircase into a crystal pool beneath a fern-draped skylight, and the water holds 72 degrees every single day of the year.

Snorkel or dive among ancient rock formations and fossil beds in a sinkhole early settlers named for the steam that rises off it on cold mornings. Snorkeling is by reservation; divers must be Open Water certified.

Carrabelle's police station is a phone booth: since 1963 the department has answered calls, done its paperwork and watched for speeders from one booth under a chinaberry tree.

The booth went in to keep officers dry — and to stop tourists making free long-distance calls on the police phone, which is why the dial was eventually removed. Johnny Carson put it on the Tonight Show in 1991. Free, always open, endlessly photographed.

The “Lady with the Lantern” still swings her light over the bay — the widowed proprietor who once signaled Prohibition rum-runners from this roof.

A 1914 bayfront inn a short walk from the historic district. Its own site tells the lantern story, and guests still report the swinging light over Matanzas Bay.

“Miss Lily,” a servant who died here, is said to roam the third floor — Lily's Room is the one brave guests request by name.

Built in 1791, the city's oldest inn leans all the way in: it sells a “Paranormal Paranoia” ghost getaway. Full breakfast and a courtyard pool soften the haunting.

Henry Flagler built this jail to look like a hotel so tourists wouldn't be scared off — inside were a gallows, death row, and the sheriff they called “Dog Man.”

Guided day tours run 9 AM–4:30 PM, and the Old Jail After Dark experience puts you inside on a real paranormal investigation. Often called one of the most haunted buildings in the city.

In the Mourning Room, built over old burial ground, visitors report cries — and the imprint of a body on an empty hospital bed.

A guided look at Colonial-era medicine — amputations, trepanation and all — in a reconstructed ward on the original 1700s site. Open daily 9–5.

The oldest masonry fort in the continental US — Spanish soldiers are still reported on the gun deck, and one headless apparition is tied to the Seminole prisoners held inside.

Built 1672–95 from coquina shellstone and never taken in battle. Rangers run history talks and weapon demonstrations; the $15 pass is good for seven days.

Real paranormal investigators take you inside downtown Orlando's haunted buildings — with EMF meters and ghost-hunting gear in your hands, not just stories.

The two-hour Ultimate Ghost Tour runs every night of the year and meets outside Venture X on Pine Street. Small groups, real investigations, skeptics welcome.

Three scare trails rebuilt from scratch every year in real woods — a community-built scream park that has been terrifying Altamonte Springs for over two decades.

One ticket covers all three trails on select October nights — 2025 ran Oct 3–Nov 1, and 2026 dates post on the official site. A spring Backstage Bash previews the new year's builds.

Orlando's oldest cemetery — 100 acres since 1880, where founders, veterans and a few famous names rest under the live oaks.

The city-run grounds are free and open daily. Moonlight walking tours run on select nights and stop at roughly 100 notable graves — the city page carries the next date.

Stop at the white line, put the car in neutral, and it rolls uphill — Florida's only gravity hill, on the National Register of Historic Places since 2019.

Legend blames a Seminole chief, a pirate curse, or a great gator fight; physics blames the horizon. Either way it's free, it's a public road, and it works every time.

Amy, a girl of about nine who vanished here in the 1890s, is still seen in the halls of Florida's oldest continuously operating hotel.

Open since 1883 on Lake Dora, in Mount Dora's walkable downtown — veranda rockers, lake sunsets, and a resident ghost who mostly keeps to the hallways.

“The only place where you can eat in an old haunted house” — and the staff will happily tell you about Ethel Allen, who vanished after a night at the old Jack's Tavern in 1934.

A working restaurant and bar in a 1920s roadhouse on US-1. Come for dinner; stay for the ghost stories the servers swap between courses.

Captain Wood died of pneumonia in Room 309 in 1918 — guests still hear him at the piano late at night, and former owner “Sunshine” Gibson reportedly phones guest rooms.

A 1907 steamboat-Gothic landmark in Apalachicola's historic district, all wraparound porch and tin roof. The Forgotten Coast's own tourism board lists it among the area's haunted stays.

The 1834 brick fort that later imprisoned Geronimo and his Apache warriors — visitors report voices and Native American spirits around Battery Cooper.

Self-guided tours through the batteries, a small museum, and miles of empty Gulf beach at the tip of Santa Rosa Island. The vehicle pass is good for seven days.

The original Sloppy Joe's was the city morgue and icehouse, built around Key West's hanging tree — Elvira, hanged from its branches, has her grave marker set in the bar floor.

Hemingway drank here; the bar stools carry famous names, and a tree grows through the roof. Free to walk in, open roughly 10 AM–2 AM daily — ask the bartender about the tree.

Locals swear Hemingway still waves from the balcony and his wife Pauline smokes on the porch — and about 60 six-toed cats, descended from his own, run the grounds either way.

Guided tours leave every 15 minutes through the 1851 Spanish Colonial house where he wrote some of his best-known work. Open 365 days a year.

Charles Deering's 1920s bayfront estate runs after-dark ghost tours through the Richmond Cottage — dowsing rods, EMF meters, and stories of the settlers who were here first.

By day: 444 acres of pine rockland and Biscayne Bay views. On October Tuesday and Thursday nights the Historic Ghost Tour takes over — it sells out, so book ahead.

Harbor pilot Captain John Geiger built this house in the 1840s — and is said to still walk its balcony, guarding a fortune he buried somewhere on the grounds and never mapped.

Three stories of Classic Revival Key West filled with Audubon engravings, wrapped in a tropical garden. Children are reportedly heard laughing in the empty rooms. Open daily, last entry 4:15 PM.

John and Mable Ringling's 56-room Venetian-Gothic palace on Sarasota Bay — and the kind of place where the tour guides lower their voices on the upper floors.

Built 1924–26 for the circus king and now the centerpiece of The Ringling museum campus. Mable died just three years after moving in; her portrait still watches the great hall.

Twain wrote Huck Finn here — and the museum's after-dark ghost tours go hunting for his daughter Susy.

Samuel Clemens's 25-room home from 1874 to 1891, where he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, now a museum open year-round. Its seasonal Ghost Tours (featured on Ghost Hunters) cover Victorian séances, Twain's own interest in the supernatural, and reports of a woman in white and cigar smoke in the billiard room.

Meet at the big anchor by the drawbridge for two hours of colonial and Victorian Mystic hauntings.

Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours' flagship downtown Mystic walk, led by trained storytellers past the Mystic River Bascule Bridge and the Captain Daniel Packer Inne. Tours depart from Liberty Pole Square at the anchor on Holmes and West Main streets, with a moonlit graveyard tour also offered.

Boat out to the mansion-like lighthouse haunted by Ernie, the keeper who never left his post.

A 1909 French Second Empire lighthouse — a brick mansion with a tower on its roof — standing in the Thames River at the mouth of New London Harbor. The New London Maritime Society runs boat tours inside the lighthouse from June through September; Coast Guard crews long reported Ernie's knockings, opening doors and switching TVs.

Adelaide Grant still walks her 1754 inn with two children in tow — the Adelaide Room is the one to book.

A 1754 colonial home turned bed-and-breakfast, which housed Revolutionary War soldiers and Underground Railroad travelers, with a cemetery on the grounds. Featured on multiple ghost-hunting shows, it reports a woman in colonial dress holding children's hands, self-working TVs and knocking in the Adelaide Room.

America's longest continuously operating hotel — Dickens haunts the elevators and founder Harvey Parker walks the tenth floor.

Opened by Harvey Parker in 1855 on the Freedom Trail and still operating, this is the birthplace of Boston cream pie and Parker House rolls. Guests report elevators rising uncalled to Dickens's third floor, rocking-chair sounds, and Parker's bearded apparition.

Sleep in the room where Abby Borden was found — this 1892 murder house now rents its bedrooms by the night.

The home where Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered on August 4, 1892; Lizzie was tried and acquitted. Restored as a museum and bed-and-breakfast, it runs daily house tours, evening ghost tours and 10 PM ghost hunts, and guests can stay overnight in the family's own rooms.

The real Annabelle is in Salem — tour the Warrens' occult collection by flashlight, if you're 12 or older.

The Warren Occult Museum collection, closed in Monroe, Connecticut since 2019, reopened to the public in Salem on August 27, 2026 with more than 1,000 haunted and cursed artifacts across 13 rooms, including the original Annabelle doll. The official site says the Salem run lasts until Christmas, with self-guided flashlight tours and November–December investigation nights.

Built over Bridget Bishop's apple orchard — guests still smell apples where no apples are, and watch for her near Room 612.

A 1925 landmark hotel on Salem Common, named for Nathaniel Hawthorne and still operating with 89 rooms and the annual Halloween Ball. It stands on land once part of the orchard of Bridget Bishop, the first person hanged in 1692, and is regularly ranked among America's most haunted hotels.

Climb the secret staircase of the 1668 mansion that inspired Hawthorne's gothic novel of a cursed house.

The Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, built in 1668 for merchant John Turner on Salem Harbor, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel and is now a National Historic Landmark District museum. Guided tours cover the mansion, Hawthorne's birthplace and the seaside gardens.

The last building in Salem still standing with direct ties to the 1692 witch trials — it was the judge's own home.

Home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, who served on the court that condemned the accused in 1692, and now a city-run historic house museum with self-guided tours. Built between about 1642 and 1675, it is the only structure in Salem with direct links to the trials still standing.

Lantern-lit, historian-led ghost tours that end at Salem's 1637 burying ground.

A Salem-based tour company whose History & Hauntings walk and adults-only Mysteries & Murders tour depart from Old Town Hall in Derby Square. Guides cover the 1692 witch trials, Salem's haunted seaport history and the McIntire District by lantern light.

Book Room 9 — Jerusha Howe's piano and perfume are still reported at America's oldest operating inn.

An inn operating since 1716 and the setting for Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, still offering lodging, dining and public grounds. Hostess Jerusha Howe, who died in 1842, is said to haunt her former bedroom, Room 9, with piano music, perfume and lights; the inn itself hosts talks on her legend.

Silas Perkins, the inn's long-dead night watchman, still makes his rounds — and rattles glasses in the tavern.

Built in 1799 as Phineas Cole's home and an inn since 1928, this working inn and tavern is known for former auditor and watchman Silas Perkins, blamed for pranks, moving objects and footsteps, especially around Room 17.

Phoebe Lord, widowed three years after the mansion was built, is still said to drift through the Lincoln Room.

An 1812 Federal mansion built for shipowner Nathaniel Lord, in his family until 1972 and now a bed-and-breakfast inn and spa. Guests in the Lincoln Room report a woman in 1800s dress watching them and appearing on the spiral staircase.

Footsteps echo in granite tunnels where no soldier ever fought a battle — the fort's ghost hunts go looking for who is walking them.

Maine's largest historic fort, built of granite between 1844 and 1869 above the Penobscot River and now a state historic site open to visitors. The Friends of Fort Knox run after-hours guided ghost hunts with 207 Paranormal through its dark passages.

The builder's widow, Carolyn Stickney, is said to still dine in the Princess Room — ask about Room 314.

The grand 1902 resort where the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference created the IMF and World Bank, now an operating Omni resort and National Historic Landmark. Staff and guests report Carolyn Stickney's apparition, and Room 314 — her former suite — is its most requested haunted room.

Hannah Hill drowned in the river behind her father's 1649 house — and, by many accounts, never left it.

One of New Hampshire's oldest houses, built in 1649 by Valentine Hill and now a 23-room inn with the ffrost Sawyer Tavern. Hannah Hill is blamed for self-locking deadbolts, moving objects, crashing computers and printers that start on their own.

A Woman in White and the smell of pipe tobacco linger on the fourth floor of this 1874 grand hotel.

A Gilded Age grand hotel opened in 1874, host of the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War, and still operating as a resort and spa. Guests report apparitions and pipe-tobacco scents, especially on the fourth floor.

Take the candlelit Walk with Ghosts past Belcourt's haunted chairs and its screaming suit of armor.

A 60-room Gilded Age mansion built for Oliver Belmont and later home to Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, now a museum offering guided history tours on weekends. Its nighttime Walking with Ghosts tour covers the mansion's reported hauntings, including chairs that resist sitters in the Gothic ballroom.

The 1922 Biltmore was once named Rhode Island's most haunted place — Prohibition-era ghosts included.

Opened in 1922 as the Providence Biltmore and now the Graduate by Hilton Providence, this downtown landmark hotel is still operating with 294 rooms. Its haunted reputation, tied to Prohibition-era murders and disappearances, made it a stop on Providence ghost tours, which meet in its lobby.

Lantern-lit walks past Poe and Lovecraft haunts, starting under Roger Williams's statue on College Hill.

A locally run haunted-history walking tour operating for nearly two decades, departing from Prospect Terrace Park at the Roger Williams statue. The 90-minute route covers College Hill and Benefit Street, with additional haunted Benefit Street and hands-on investigation tours.

Mary Todd Lincoln summered here — and some say she, and a bellman named George, never checked out.

A resort serving guests since 1769, when its Marsh Tavern hosted Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, and a summer retreat for Mary Todd Lincoln and her sons. The resort's own haunted-tales page recounts rocking chairs, vanishing belongings and a vintage bellman seen near the service elevator.

Vermont's only castle runs candlelight tours and overnight paranormal investigations in its 32 rooms.

A 19th-century castle built in the 1860s by Dr. John Johnson and later owned by radio pioneer Herbert Lee Wilson, with 84 stained-glass windows and 13 fireplaces. It offers daytime historic tours through Halloween, plus ticketed overnight paranormal investigations.

On snowy nights, guests hear tap-dancing on the roof — Boots Berry, the horseman who died in a rooftop rescue in 1902.

A historic Main Street inn, in business since 1833 and still operating with 105 rooms and the Whip Bar & Grill. Its best-known ghost is former horseman Boots Berry, born at the inn in 1840, whose tap-dancing is reportedly heard overhead during snowstorms; HGTV named it among America's best haunted stays.

Naval hero Stephen Decatur was fatally wounded in a duel two years after moving in — his presence is still reported here.

The 1818 Latrobe-designed Decatur House on Lafayette Square is a historic house museum run by the White House Historical Association as the National Center for White House History. Free public tours are offered on Mondays.

DC's oldest unchanged building, saved by a legend that Washington slept here — he didn't, but the ghost stories stuck.

Built in 1765, the Old Stone House is Washington's last pre-Revolutionary building on its original foundation and is run by the National Park Service as a free house museum in Georgetown. Later ghost lore credits it with multiple resident spirits.

Clover Adams is said to haunt the fourth floor — locked doors, sobbing, and the faint scent of almonds each December.

The Hay-Adams is an operating luxury hotel across Lafayette Square from the White House, built on the site of the adjoining Hay and Adams homes. Marian 'Clover' Adams, who died there in 1885, is the hotel's famous reported ghost.

The temporary White House after the British burned Washington — and one of DC's most reported haunted houses.

Completed in 1801 for John Tayloe III and designed by William Thornton, the Octagon hosted the Madisons in 1814-15, where the Treaty of Ghent was signed. The Architects Foundation now runs it as a museum, currently open Fridays and Saturdays with guided tours.

Rooms 1, 6 and 11 are the famous ones — a shaking copper tub, phantom organ music and a handyman who never clocked out.

Built in 1901 as the Addy family summer house, the Addy Sea is an adults-only oceanfront bed-and-breakfast still taking reservations in Bethany Beach. Its three reportedly haunted rooms are a staple of Delaware haunted-hotel lists.

A ferry ride to a Civil War island prison where about 2,500 Confederate prisoners died — paranormal tours run every October.

Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island held up to 12,595 Confederate prisoners at once during the Civil War and is now a Delaware state park reached by ferry from Delaware City. Paranormal tours with Diamond State Ghost Investigators return each October for their 18th year.

Delaware's governor's mansion since 1965 — with a hanged raider and a little girl among its reported ghosts.

Woodburn, built around 1798, is the official residence of Delaware's governor and a historic house open for tours by appointment and at seasonal open houses. Its ghost lore includes a Revolutionary-era raider said to hang in a tree on the grounds.

A Gothic Revival mansion whose own tours lean into its paranormal activity — attic to basement.

Built in the 1850s for Joseph Shipley, Rockwood is a New Castle County museum offering guided and self-guided tours Thursday-Sunday. The county also runs seasonal Paranormal Experiences investigating the mansion.

Poe wrote his early tales of terror in this tiny brick rowhouse — reservations-required tours, Thu–Sun.

Poe lived at 203 N. Amity Street in 1833-1835 and wrote early stories there; the house is a National Historic Landmark museum operated by Poe Baltimore. It is open Thursday-Sunday (plus Wednesdays May-October) with reservations required, and hosts the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival each October.

Ask about Molly — the little girl in the cream dress bouncing her red ball on the 19th floor.

Opened in 1928 and listed on the National Register, the Lord Baltimore is an operating downtown hotel that embraces its haunted reputation. Its own site markets a 'Mystery & Magic' getaway with a guided ghost tour, and paranormal investigation nights are held on site.

Baltimore's original ghost walk, running since 2001 through the cobblestones of its rowdy old seaport.

Baltimore Ghost Tours, locally owned since 2001, runs the all-ages Original Fells Point Ghost Walk and a 21+ haunted pub crawl on Friday and Saturday nights in season. Tours depart from Broadway Square outside Max's Taphouse at 735 S Broadway.

A Civil War prison camp where thousands of Confederates died — and a lighthouse long called one of Maryland's most haunted.

Point Lookout, where the Potomac meets the Chesapeake, held a Union prison camp for Confederate soldiers and is now a Maryland state park open year-round. The park includes the 1830 lighthouse, a Civil War museum, beach and campground.

The doctor who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after Lincoln's assassination — and paid for it with prison.

Dr. Samuel Mudd treated Booth in this farmhouse on April 15, 1865, and was later convicted as a conspirator. The preserved house is now a museum offering guided tours on Wednesdays and Saturdays in season.

New Jersey's tallest lighthouse — featured on Ghost Hunters, with keepers reportedly still on duty.

First lit in 1857, the 171-foot Absecon Lighthouse is open year-round for climbs of its 228 steps, with a museum and replica keeper's house on site. Its ghost stories have drawn paranormal TV crews and special haunted tours.

America's first seaside resort hotel, hosting presidents since 1816 — and, some say, a few permanent guests.

Congress Hall has provided hospitality since 1816 and is an operating Cape Resorts beachfront hotel in Cape May's historic district. The 19th-century grand hotel is a recurring stop in Cape May ghost lore and tours.

Cape May's grand 1879 Victorian — where Dr. Physick's family is said to still make itself heard.

The 18-room Stick-style mansion designed by Frank Furness for Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. is operated by Cape May MAC as a Victorian house museum. Guided tours run year-round, alongside seasonal ghost and trolley tours in Cape May.

An 1811 prison that ran for 154 years — and still books Friday and Saturday night ghost investigations.

Designed by Robert Mills and in continuous operation from 1811 to 1965, this National Historic Landmark is now a museum open Thursday-Sunday with self-guided and audio tours. Paranormal investigations are permitted on weekend nights through the county parks department.

60,000 square feet of asylum to explore by flashlight — shadow figures and phantom voices reported throughout.

Opened in 1827 as the Genesee County Poor House, Rolling Hills later served as an infirmary, orphanage and nursing home, with over 1,700 documented deaths. Today it offers daytime self-guided tours, guided flashlight tours and public ghost hunts by reservation.

A stone castle on Seneca Lake where a lovelorn opera singer in white is said to walk the lawn at night.

This late-19th-century stone mansion on the National Register is now a hotel, winery, restaurant and spa taking overnight guests in its castle chambers. Legend ties its haunting to opera singer Isabella Robinson and a collapsed escape tunnel.

Book a room, join the ghost hunt, then try to sleep — pianos, whistling and footsteps included.

The current Shanley Hotel was built in 1895 and now operates as a haunted inn offering overnight stays paired with staff-led paranormal investigations. It markets itself as one of the most haunted locations on the East Coast.

Billed as Manhattan's most haunted house — Gertrude Tredwell, born and died here, reportedly never left.

Built in 1832, the Merchant's House is New York City's only 19th-century family home preserved intact, with original Tredwell family furnishings. The museum is open Wednesday-Sunday and runs candlelight ghost tours in season.

Manhattan's oldest house — Washington's headquarters, and Eliza Jumel is said to still appear on the balcony.

Built in 1765, the Morris-Jumel Mansion served as George Washington's headquarters in 1776 and is now a historic house museum in Roger Morris Park. The mansion interior is temporarily closed for renovation, but guided Saturday walking tours run from the house and the Roger Morris Park grounds stay open daily — check its official site before you go.

Lantern tours by night in the burial ground that inspired the Headless Horseman.

The 90-acre historic cemetery founded in 1849 holds Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie and William Rockefeller. It offers daytime guided tours and two-hour evening kerosene-lantern tours, with advance tickets required.

Guests and staff report friendly ghosts in this 1922 grand hotel — including in its famously haunted rooms.

The 1922 Historic Hotel Bethlehem on Main Street is an operating luxury hotel repeatedly named a top historic hotel in America. Its long-reported hauntings are part of local lore, and it sits in the middle of Bethlehem's historic district.

Its south wall still bears Civil War bullet scars — and guests report soldiers who never left.

A Civil War-era bed-and-breakfast and restaurant on Baltimore Street that served as a Confederate position and hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg. It still takes overnight guests and runs its own ghost walks and mourning theater.

Nightly tours that actually take you inside two haunted houses — the Jennie Wade House and the Haunted Orphanage.

Gettysburg's long-running ghost-tour operator runs walking tours, Ghostly Encounters, haunted bus tours and midnight investigations from its Baltimore Street base. Tours run nightly March through November.

The only civilian killed in the Battle of Gettysburg was shot through two doors while kneading dough.

The authentically furnished 1863 home where 20-year-old Jennie Wade was killed is now a museum with period-dressed guides. Evening ghost tours of the house are sold separately through Ghostly Images of Gettysburg.

Al Capone did time in a furnished cell here — and visitors still report voices in the crumbling cellblocks.

Opened in 1829, America's first true penitentiary operated until 1971 and is now a National Historic Landmark museum open daily for tours. It also hosts the Halloween Nights festival each fall.

A real former state institution turned seasonal haunt — the buildings themselves are the scare.

The former Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-1987) now hosts a ticketed haunted attraction in fall, plus daytime history tours, photography tours and overnight paranormal investigations on scheduled dates. Tickets are sold online in advance.

Foreman 'Slag' Wormwood fell into the furnace in 1906 — workers and visitors still report figures on the catwalks.

Sloss Furnaces produced pig iron from 1882 to 1971 under brutal, often deadly working conditions. Now a National Historic Landmark museum, it is free to visit for self-guided tours Tuesday–Sunday, with guided and special nighttime programming.

Costumed historians walk you from Harrison Brothers Hardware into Maple Hill Cemetery's Civil War dead.

The Huntsville Ghost Walk runs guided routes including Downtown, Old Town, and the Civil War Bones tour through Maple Hill Cemetery. Tours meet at Harrison Brothers Hardware on the courthouse square in downtown Huntsville.

Mobile's grand 1852 'living room' — rebuilt after fire, and still said to host a murdered butler and a forlorn bride.

The Battle House first opened on this downtown site in 1852; the current hotel, reopened in 2007 after a full restoration, is a Marriott Renaissance property and a Historic Hotels of America member. Its long history of fires and deaths underpins its local ghost lore.

Moss-draped oaks, Victorian angels, and Little Gracie — the 'Midnight in the Garden' cemetery, walked with a guide.

Bonaventure Cemetery, founded in 1846 on the Wilmington River, is the resting place of Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken and was made famous by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Guided walking tours meet at the front entrance; the cemetery itself is free and open daily 8 AM–5 PM.

An 1892 iron magnate's mansion that spent decades as a funeral home — now a B&B with reported child ghosts.

William Kehoe built this Renaissance Revival mansion on Columbia Square in 1892; it later served for years as a funeral home. Today it is a 13-room luxury bed and breakfast in the Historic District.

A Civil War and yellow-fever hospital turned hotel — guests report ghost children in the halls and faucets turning on alone.

Opened in 1851 in Savannah's Historic District, The Marshall House served as a hospital during the Civil War and two yellow fever epidemics. It operates today as a 68-room historic boutique hotel.

Georgia's first state landmark runs ghost tours every night — and after-hours investigations for the brave.

This 1840 Greek Revival mansion on Madison Square was one of the first two Georgia homes designated a State Landmark. The museum offers daytime history and architecture tours, nightly ghost tours, and after-hours paranormal investigations.

A 1779 stagecoach stop with the world's oldest bourbon bar — and reported guests who never checked out, Jesse James lore included.

Operating since 1779, the Old Talbott Tavern is a restaurant, bourbon bar, and bed and breakfast that hosted Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Boone. Ghostly apparitions, orbs, and a ghostly boy and girl are reported by guests and staff.

An eight-sided Civil War hospital billed as one of the most haunted places in the South — ghost hunts run after hours.

Built in 1847, Octagon Hall served as a Masonic lodge, a Confederate sanctuary, and a Civil War hospital. It operates as a museum Thursday–Sunday with self-guided tours and ticketed novice ghost hunts and paranormal events.

The Body Chute, Room 502, and a little boy named Timmy — the tuberculosis hospital routinely called one of the most haunted places on Earth.

Opened in 1910 and expanded in 1926, Waverly Hills treated tuberculosis patients until 1961 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It now runs guided historical tours, nighttime paranormal tours, and private overnight investigations by reservation.

America's largest octagonal house, frozen mid-construction in 1861 — the workers' tools still lie where they dropped them.

Longwood, or Nutt's Folly, was designed in 1859 for cotton planter Haller Nutt; Northern craftsmen abandoned it at the start of the Civil War and only the basement floor was ever finished. The Pilgrimage Garden Club runs daily guided tours of the unfinished mansion.

General John Quitman is reported to still inspect his 1818 mansion — guests claim to wake and find him in full uniform in their room.

Built in 1818 and remodeled in Greek Revival style by Governor John A. Quitman, Monmouth is a National Historic Landmark on 26 acres. It operates as a 30-room inn with daily house tours at 10 AM and 2 PM and the Restaurant 1818.

'Mississippi's most haunted house' — Mary Elizabeth Howard is said to greet guests in the house she died in as a young bride.

Built in three periods (1797, 1836, 1849) and called the 'Time Capsule of the South' by National Geographic, McRaven survived the Siege of Vicksburg as a Confederate campsite and hospital site. It offers daily history tours and weekend haunted tours.

America's largest home — visitors swear Edith Vanderbilt still calls for George in the library of the empty pool room echoes with laughter.

George Vanderbilt's 250-room Châteauesque mansion, completed in 1895, is open year-round for house and garden tours on an 8,000-acre estate. Reported hauntings include the Vanderbilts in the library and sounds from the drained indoor pool; no official ghost tour is offered.

The Pink Lady has drifted these halls since the 1920s — guests and staff still report her near Room 545.

Opened in 1913 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Grove Park Inn is a granite mountain resort above Asheville. Its famous Pink Lady legend dates to a woman who fell to her death from the Palm Court atrium in the 1920s.

Dr. Jacocks lived here 17 years — and reportedly never left, still locking guests out of his old suite for fun.

Built in 1924 on the edge of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, The Carolina Inn is a Destination by Hyatt hotel. Long-term resident Dr. William Jacocks, who lived in Room 256 until 1965, is the inn's best-known reported ghost.

Room 8 has a headless torso, Room 10 a gentleman ghost who slips into bed — Charleston's most haunted sleepover.

Built in 1843 across from White Point Garden, this 11-room inn operates today as 20 South Battery. Its own site recounts the Gentleman Ghost of Room 10 and the Headless Torso reported in Room 8.

Step inside the jail that held pirates and Lavinia Fisher — Bulldog has exclusive nighttime access to its cells.

The Old City Jail operated from 1802 to 1939 and held 19th-century pirates, Civil War prisoners, and notorious Charleston criminals. Bulldog Tours runs a 45-minute nightly haunted jail tour of the renovated first floor.

Patriots and pirates were chained in this 1771 dungeon — guides still field reports of moans, cold spots, and swinging chains.

Built in 1771, the Old Exchange is where South Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1788; the British held prisoners in its Provost Dungeon during the Revolution. It is open daily as a museum with guided dungeon tours every half hour.

America's most famous poltergeist legend started on this farm in 1817 — tour the cave and the Bell cabin by lantern.

The Bell Witch haunting of the John Bell family (1817–1821) is a landmark of American folklore. The privately run farm offers guided cave and replica-cabin tours, seasonal lantern tours, and scheduled paranormal investigations.

Bloodstains still mark the floors where surgeons worked after the Battle of Franklin — and Carrie McGavock is still reportedly seen in the cemetery.

Built in 1826, Carnton became a field hospital after the November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin and adjoins the McGavock Confederate Cemetery. The Battle of Franklin Trust runs guided house tours daily.

Tour Old Hickory's mansion by day — then return in October for Hauntings at The Hermitage and its haunted hayrides.

The 1,120-acre Hermitage, a National Historic Landmark open as a museum since 1889, preserves Andrew Jackson's Greek Revival mansion and tomb. Alongside year-round admission, it runs ghost tours and the seasonal Hauntings at The Hermitage event in October.

The 'End of the Line' prison that held James Earl Ray — walk its cellblocks by day, investigate them after dark.

Tennessee's first maximum-security prison operated from 1896 to 2009 in the Cumberland Mountains. Reopened as an attraction in 2018, it offers self-guided tours, paranormal tours and investigations, plus an on-site distillery and restaurant.

A Civil War nurse named Beth is said to still tend Room 408 — and phantom bloodstains reportedly return no matter how often they're cleaned.

Built in 1832 as General Francis Preston's home, the inn later served as a women's college and a Civil War hospital and barracks. It operates today as a full-service historic hotel and spa across from the Barter Theatre.

A railroad hotel turned Civil War hospital for 70,000 soldiers — billed as one of Virginia's most haunted sites.

Built in 1859, the Exchange Hotel became the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital during the Civil War and later a Freedmen's Bureau. Today it is a three-floor museum of Civil War medical history, open for self-guided tours.

Sleep in an 1828 former lunatic asylum — guests report showers turning on and locked windows opening on their own.

The Blackburn Inn occupies the Main Administration Building of the former Western State Hospital, founded in 1828 and later also used as a prison. It now operates as a 49-room boutique hotel and conference center.

Nightly walks through Colonial Williamsburg's burial grounds, witch trials, and war stories — with licensed local guides.

Colonial Ghosts runs nightly ghost walks through the Colonial Williamsburg historic area and the William & Mary campus. Tours depart in the Merchants Square area of Duke of Gloucester Street.

Once ranked among America's most violent prisons — now you can tour it by day or ghost-hunt it until 6 a.m.

The Gothic penitentiary operated from 1866 to 1995 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. WV Pen Tours runs day tours, twilight tours, public ghost hunts, and a seasonal haunted house, April 1 to December 1.

The world's only Mothman museum — original 1966 eyewitness letters, in the town where the red-eyed legend began.

The Mothman Museum displays handwritten eyewitness accounts from the November 1966 sightings, period newspaper clippings, Silver Bridge disaster exhibits, and props from The Mothman Prophecies film. The Mothman statue stands nearby on Main Street.

A quarter-mile of hand-cut stone wards — take a history tour by day, then come back for an overnight ghost hunt.

This Kirkbride-plan asylum operated from 1864 to 1994 and is one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in North America. It now offers historic tours, paranormal tours, ghost hunts, and a seasonal haunted house.

America's Most Haunted Hotel still keeps its cancer-hospital morgue — and tours it nightly.

Mountaintop limestone hotel opened in 1886 that later served as Norman Baker's fraudulent cancer hospital, whose morgue and autopsy room survive. The hotel runs nightly ghost tours, expanded expert tours and midnight paranormal investigations.

Downtown's 1905 limestone hotel investigates its own ghosts every night at 9 — speakeasy cave included.

The 1905 Basin Park Hotel in downtown Eureka Springs runs a nightly Paranormal Investigation through its most active areas, including the bootleggers' cave beneath the hotel. It operates year-round with a spa, restaurant and rooftop bar.

The hanging judge's prosecutor built this house — docents say a little girl named Grace still plays in it.

Historic house museum, home of U.S. District Attorney W.H.H. Clayton, open for guided tours Tuesday-Sunday in the Belle Grove Historic District. Paranormal teams and docents report EVPs, lights switching and the spirits of Grace and Powell Clayton.

Al Capone's favorite floor, a girl in pink in the lobby, and 500 rooms of Bathhouse Row history.

Arkansas' largest hotel, in its current Spanish Colonial Revival building since 1924 on Central Avenue in Hot Springs National Park, with its own thermal bathhouse. Reported hauntings include Capone-era figures, a spectral bellman on the fourth floor and a girl in pink.

An 1888 Queen Anne mansion on the cover of Haunted Little Rock — stay the night, or tour it at Halloween.

The Hornibrook Mansion, built in 1888 and now a boutique bed-and-breakfast hotel in the Quapaw Quarter, is featured in Haunted Little Rock and hosts ticketed haunted-history tours of the house. Guests report footsteps and apparitions on the grand staircase.

A lone dancer still waltzes under the ballroom chandelier — in an empty ballroom.

French Quarter hotel on the site of the 1817 Orleans Theatre and Ballroom, later a Sisters of the Holy Family convent, school and orphanage. Reported ghosts include a Confederate soldier, children and nuns, and the hotel offers guests a haunted-history tour.

A grand 1831 French Quarter mansion with the Quarter's last open-hearth kitchen — and a mourning-season after-dark tour.

National Historic Landmark house museum open six days a week for guided tours, including its Urban Enslavement Tour and fall Creole Death and Mourning after-dark programming. It preserves an 1831 Federal-style home, courtyard and slave quarters.

The elevator stops on the wrong floor — and opens on ghost children playing in a cold hallway.

Family-owned French Quarter landmark hotel since 1886 and a designated literary landmark, home to the rotating Carousel Bar. The hotel itself recounts hauntings including young Maurice Begere and former employee William Wildemere.

They set a table for the resident ghost every night — bread, wine, and nobody sitting there.

Creole restaurant on Jackson Square whose Séance Lounge is the reputed domain of resident ghost Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan, who died by suicide on the property in 1814. Open daily for dinner and weekend brunch.

Serial-killer art, shrunken heads and a Theatre of Death — in the middle of the French Quarter.

Self-guided museum open seven days a week displaying mortician instruments, crime and morgue photos, serial-murderer artwork and letters, and Dr. Kevorkian's Thanatron. The museum warns the graphic content is for mature audiences.

Love Potion No. 9, leeches and voodoo potions — medicine in the 1800s was not for the weak.

Museum in the 1823 apothecary of Louis J. Dufilho Jr., America's first licensed pharmacist, offering self-guided visits Tuesday-Saturday and 10am guided tours. Exhibits cover 19th-century medicines, surgical tools and voodoo remedies.

You can only get in with a guide — to the tomb of Voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

New Orleans' oldest cemetery, founded in 1789, is famous for its above-ground tombs including Marie Laveau's. Public entry is by licensed guided tour only, run daily by the official tour operator.

Billed as one of America's most haunted homes — sleep in it, then take the nightly mystery tour.

A 1796 antebellum plantation operating as a bed-and-breakfast with daily guided history tours and evening mystery tours. Legends center on the figure of Chloe and a mirror said to hold trapped spirits.

Twenty-eight ancient oaks form a tunnel to a mansion visitors swear is watched from the windows.

River Road plantation open daily for guided Big House tours and the Slavery at Oak Alley exhibit, with a restaurant and overnight cottages on site. The 1839 Greek Revival mansion is framed by its famous quarter-mile alley of live oaks.

Buffalo Soldiers, a POW cemetery and faces in the chapel windows — toured by candlelight and by spirit tour.

1874 cavalry post west of El Reno with a visitor center and museum open weekdays, plus seasonal Historic Spirit Tours and an annual Candlelight Tour. Reported activity includes slamming doors, cold spots and faces in windows across the grounds and cemetery.

A 1907 mansion, once a funeral home, where a child spirit named Augusta is said to tuck guests in.

Victorian bed-and-breakfast in historic Guthrie famous for its Friday and Saturday murder-mystery dinner weekends and reported hauntings tied to its years as a funeral home. Note: the inn is in Guthrie, not El Reno as sometimes listed.

Effie, the maid who jumped from the 10th floor, has been blamed for rattling NBA teams since 2010.

Downtown landmark hotel opened in 1911 by oilman W.B. Skirvin, restored and reopened as a Hilton in 2007. Legend holds that Skirvin's mistress Effie and her baby haunt the upper floors, with guests reporting crying, moving carts and phantom touches.

Bob Wills made western swing here — staff say he and a Lady in Red never left the dance floor.

Legendary 1924 dance hall in the Tulsa Arts District, home of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys' radio broadcasts, still hosting concerts on its spring-loaded maple floor. Reports include apparitions, disembodied singing and lights switching on their own.

Three extreme haunts in one building, themed on a real 1940s Tulsa hex case — actors can touch you.

Tulsa's premier seasonal haunted attraction, operating fall nights with three walk-through haunts: The Hex House, Rise of the Living Dead and West Side Grim. It is consistently ranked among the country's top Halloween attractions by Hauntworld.

Colonel Driskill's cigar smoke still drifts through a smoke-free hotel — and a little girl bounces a ball on the stairs.

Austin's oldest operating hotel, opened in 1886 by cattle baron Jesse Driskill and now part of Hyatt's Unbound Collection. Reported spirits include Driskill himself, a young girl who died on the grand staircase in 1887, and the so-called suicide brides of Room 525.

The 'Blue Ghost' carrier runs ghost tours — and turns two decks into a haunted house each fall.

WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16), a museum ship open daily in Corpus Christi Bay with self-guided routes across multiple decks. The museum offers paranormal tours and hosts the seasonal Haunting on the Blue Ghost attraction.

Audra, the lovelorn bride of Room 501, still waits for a fiancé whose ship never came home.

Beachfront hotel opened in 1911 as the Hotel Galvez, now Marriott's Grand Galvez, which promotes its ghost lore and runs guided ghost tours in October. Other reported spirits include a little girl near the spa and Sister Katherine of the 1900 storm orphanage.

Sleep in the officers' quarters of the fort where Fannin's men were executed — if you can sleep.

Spanish colonial fort established at this site in 1749 and scene of the 1836 Goliad Massacre, now a state historic site open daily with a museum, chapel and guided tours. Its historic Quarters can be rented overnight, and the site has been ranked among America's most terrifying places.

The Historic Jefferson Hotel bills itself the most haunted hotel in the world — Room 19's bride never left.

Built in 1851 as a cotton warehouse and long known as the Historic Jefferson Hotel, the property operates as a themed hotel offering overnight ghost hunts. Guests report footsteps, laughter, faucets turning on alone and a jilted bride in Room 19.

Built as a hospital tower with gargoyles carved as ailments — guests still smell antiseptic on the old surgical floor.

The 1924 Medical Arts Building, converted to a hotel in 1984 and now a DoubleTree by Hilton, once housed doctors' offices, a hospital, a morgue and a crematorium. The hotel claims to be one of San Antonio's most haunted locations, with activity reported on the 7th, 9th and 14th floors.

Steps from the Alamo, with some 32 reported spirits — including a chambermaid still delivering towels.

Operating since 1859 beside the Alamo, the Menger calls itself the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi. Its best-known ghost is Sallie White, a maid killed in 1876, and Captain Richard King is said to enter the King Suite through a wall.

Guards and visitors still report sentries on the walls of the shrine where 1836 never quite ended.

The 1718 Spanish mission and 1836 battlefield is open daily with free timed entry to the Alamo Church, guided battlefield tours and periodic after-hours tours. It is Texas' most visited destination and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Thirteen resident spirits, one unrestored wing, and the whole second floor to yourself overnight.

An 1840s stagecoach stop and frontier hotel operating as a bed-and-breakfast with weekday History & Mystery day tours and selected Saturday VIP night ghost tours. Owners credit 13 spirits, including Texas Ranger James Campbell and fortune teller Ms. Idella.

The closed hospital is open again — for daytime tours and overnight investigations only.

A hospital run by the Felician Sisters from 1951 to 1986, now operated as a ticketed paranormal attraction with daily daytime tours (noon-5pm) and bookable overnight investigations. It has been featured on Ghost Adventures and Destination Fear.

The only three-story rotary jail left in America — its cells rotated, four men died inside, and October flashlight tours explore it after dark.

The 1885 Pottawattamie County Squirrel Cage Jail is a Historical Society museum open Thursday–Sunday for self-guided tours, with October flashlight tours and bookable overnight paranormal investigations.

A county poor farm and asylum with 250+ documented deaths — investigators hear a little girl singing in the empty halls.

Edinburgh Manor (1910–1911), a former poor farm and home for the incurably ill, offers weekend daytime tours and bookable overnight paranormal investigations; reservations required.

Eight people were murdered in their beds in 1912 and no one was ever convicted — you can tour it by day or sleep in it overnight.

The restored 1868 Moore house, site of the unsolved 1912 Villisca axe murders, offers daytime tours and bookable overnight stays and paranormal investigations.

Sit 30 minutes in total darkness in the wine cellar of Alton's most haunted mansion — if old man McPike lets you leave quietly.

The 1869 McPike Mansion, on the National Register, is in active restoration; grounds are open daily and guided historic/paranormal tours end with a darkness session in the vaulted cellar. The mansion interior itself is not open.

Named Chicago's most haunted hotel — Room 441 and the 12th floor are the ones guests ask about, and staff avoid.

Opened in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition, the Congress Plaza is a working 871-room hotel on Michigan Avenue long reported for shadow figures, voices, and a ghostly judge.

The Blues Brothers prison runs flashlight tours after dark through cellblocks that held inmates for 144 years.

The 1858 Joliet Prison, run by the Joliet Area Historical Museum, offers self-guided tours, guided history tours, and Prison After Dark programs across its 16-acre limestone site.

A stillborn baby, a basement fire, and former slaves hidden in the walls — Indy's most haunted mansion keeps its secrets badly.

The 1858 Hannah House offers historical open-house tours on the first Sunday each month and bookable overnight paranormal investigations from 9 PM to 5 AM.

A doctor's 1894 home where patients died upstairs — now home to a little girl named Rachel who still talks.

Whispers Estate, a former doctor's home and practice, is open for one-hour flashlight tours, mini-investigations, and full overnight paranormal investigations by reservation.

Indiana's richest man's mansion runs a haunted house in its carriage house every October — on top of its own ghost stories.

The 1867 Culbertson Mansion, an Indiana State Historic Site, gives guided house tours Wednesday–Sunday and hosts an annual October haunted house and spirited evenings.

Kansas's most haunted house — a tenant was repeatedly scratched and burned by something in this doctor's home, and it was caught on camera.

The Sallie House, a mid-1800s doctor's home, is open through Visit Atchison for self-guided day tours and bookable overnight investigations; a waiver is required.

A gas baron's 16-room mansion where his son died on 11/11/11 — locals recommend its candlelit and paranormal tours.

The 1906 Brown Mansion is a Coffeyville Historical Society museum offering one-hour guided tours Tuesday–Saturday in season, plus private tours, candlelit Christmas tours, and fall paranormal events.

Twice burned by pro-slavery raiders, this hotel's fifth floor — Room 506, built around the original cornerstone — is said to be a portal for Colonel Eldridge.

The Eldridge is a working historic hotel on Mass Street, a stop on Ghost Tours of Kansas, with reports centered on the fifth floor and Room 506.

Flora Whitney never got to live in her mansion — so she haunts it, sobbing on the third floor by the Ghostbar.

The 1894 David Whitney Jr. mansion is now a fine-dining restaurant with a third-floor Ghostbar; it runs paranormal dinner tours and late-night paranormal tours of the mansion and carriage house.

Guests have fled this 1895 castle inn mid-check-in — the Hendersons, dead since 1899 and 1908, still act like hosts.

Henderson Castle is a working Queen Anne inn and restaurant that leans into its haunting with Haunted Castle Tours and haunted history dinners each October and year-round stays.

Tour the tunnels and unrenovated wards of Michigan's last Kirkbride asylum — now a village of shops built inside it.

The former Traverse City State Hospital (1885) is redeveloped as the Village at Grand Traverse Commons; guided historic and asylum tours run through Building 50, its cottages, and underground steam tunnels.

Heiress Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse were murdered here in 1977 — the tours never mention it, but visitors still report chills in those rooms.

Glensheen, the 39-room 1908 Congdon estate run by the University of Minnesota Duluth, is open daily for self-guided Classic and Full Mansion tours, with seasonal lantern tours in October.

This river hotel was the morgue for 98 drowned passengers of the Sea Wing disaster — Room 310 is still tidied by its dead owner.

The 1875 St. James Hotel is a working historic hotel on the Mississippi; guests request Room 310, linked to former owner Clara Lillyblad, and report slamming doors, cold spots, and a crying baby.

Gangsters were murdered in these sandstone caves and their bodies never found — the Lost Souls Tour goes looking monthly.

The Wabasha Street Caves, a restored Gangster Era casino site, runs historic cave tours, the Saint Paul Gangster Tour, and the monthly Lost Souls ghost tour, plus swing nights and events.

A gambler haunts the lap pool and a 1920s maid still supervises housekeeping — the hotel sells a nightly paranormal tour to meet them.

The Elms, rebuilt in 1912 after two fires and featured on Ghost Hunters, is a working Hyatt hotel and spa offering 9 PM paranormal tours for guests and the public.

'The bloodiest 47 acres in America' — ghost tours walk death row and the gas chamber where 40 people were executed.

Decommissioned in 2004 after 168 years, the Missouri State Penitentiary runs two-hour history and ghost tours and overnight investigations, March–November, by advance reservation.

An orphanage, a retirement home, then a WWII POW interrogation site — its dungeon and tunnel host a nightly ghost tour.

Pythian Castle (1913), built by the Knights of Pythias, runs history tours, 1.5-hour night ghost tours with EVP sessions, murder mysteries, and escape rooms, and rents for events.

Three Lemps shot themselves in this beer baron's mansion — now a restaurant and inn where you can dine and sleep with the family.

The 1868 Lemp Mansion operates as a restaurant and small inn offering ghost tours (the Lemp Experience), mystery dinners, overnight stays, and private investigations.

Libbie Custer in a black dress is still seen in the rebuilt Custer House — and every October the fort becomes North Dakota's biggest haunted attraction.

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park offers living-history tours of the reconstructed Custer House (1874) in season, and hosts Haunted Fort each October, built on decades of reported voices and the woman in black.

North Dakota's oldest hotel (1884) has a top-floor prankster — a little boy who giggles and flushes toilets in empty rooms.

The Rough Riders Hotel, renamed for Theodore Roosevelt's cavalry in 1905, is a working year-round hotel a block from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, with long-running reports of a ghostly boy on the upper floor.

After dark in a pioneer village: footsteps in the Brass Rail Saloon and voices in the Houston Mansion, investigated in small groups each October.

Bonanzaville, the Cass County Historical Society's 36-building pioneer village and museum, runs guided Paranormal Investigations in October ($60, 90 minutes, groups of 6–8) through its reportedly haunted historic buildings.

Footsteps pace the top floor when no one is up there — this 1912 hotel-turned-sanatorium was investigated by Ghost Hunters.

The Argo Hotel, on the National Register, operates as a bed and breakfast and steakhouse with 13 period rooms; the owners offer historical and ghost tours of the building.

3,000+ haunted objects people begged to get out of their homes — including Ayda, billed as the world's most haunted doll.

The Museum of Shadows, now in downtown Omaha after moving from Plattsmouth, displays thousands of vetted haunted artifacts in a former brothel/mortuary building and runs ghost hunts and a 10-minute dark Sit Challenge. Open Wed–Sun, 2–10 PM.

A lantern-led mile through Omaha's vice districts, underground tunnels and the Museum of Shadows — the city's darkest stories, told where they happened.

US Ghost Adventures' nightly one-hour walking tour, running 365 days a year, rain or shine. Meets at The Arch at Gene Leahy Mall and covers 6+ haunted downtown locations.

Ohio's oldest continuously operating inn is checked on nightly by its former owners — and a ghost cat.

Built in 1812, the Buxton Inn hosts guests in 25 rooms; Ohio Magazine documents sightings of founder Orrin Granger, the Lady in Blue, and Major Buxton, mostly in Rooms 7 and 9.

Sleep in a castle, then ghost-walk its 1830s cemetery — as seen on Ghost Hunters.

This castle hotel in Mohican country runs official Haunted History Tours and private paranormal investigations around Heyd Cemetery and the Macbeth building on its grounds.

The Shawshank prison is also a ghost-hunt prison — 200+ deaths happened inside these cellblocks.

The 1896 reformatory, famous as Shawshank in film, runs self-guided and guided tours plus paranormal ghost hunts through its six-tier East Cell Block.

Sheriff Seth Bullock still patrols his 1895 hotel — a lost boy once identified his helper from Bullock's portrait.

The Historic Bullock Hotel is a working hotel and 24-hour casino on Main Street offering rooms, Bully's Restaurant, and evening ghost tours Friday–Sunday.

Locked up untouched for 51 years — cookies from 1936 still sit in the pantry of Deadwood's grandest haunted house museum.

The 1892 Adams House, run by Deadwood History Inc., gives 45-minute guided tours April–October (plus December Christmas tours); it is also the final stop of Deadwood ghost tours. Closed November–March.

The Lady in White opens windows and flips drawers in Room 812 — the hotel keeps a ghost book at check-in and sells a Ghost Adventure Package.

The 1928 Hotel Alex Johnson, a Hilton Curio hotel, leans into its eighth-floor haunting with a guest ghost-encounter book, bookable haunted rooms, and a Ghost Adventure Package with a K2 meter.

A Capone-era speakeasy mansion where a ghost named Suzanne leaves lists of how she wants the basement decorated.

The 1910 Brumder Mansion is a working bed and breakfast with a basement theater; it hosts murder-mystery dinners, shows, ghost tours, and public and private paranormal investigations.

A Capone speakeasy and brothel built over a cemetery — its ghost tours climb all three haunted floors, cellar included.

Shaker's Cigar Bar (1894 building) is an operating bar and restaurant that runs its Original Ghost Tour and Ghost Tour 2.0 through its speakeasy, brothel floors, and basement.

Visiting baseball players refuse to sleep alone here — Charles Pfister still overlooks his lobby from the grand staircase.

The 1893 Pfister, the 'Grand Hotel of the West,' is a working luxury hotel famous for apparition reports from guests and Major League players; book a room to investigate it yourself.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown survived the Titanic — guides say she never really left this house.

The Capitol Hill home of Titanic survivor Margaret 'Molly' Brown is now a museum open for tours year-round. Its 'Ghosts of 1340 Penn' tours run in October, with reports of cigar smoke, rearranged furniture and a ghost cat.

The switchboard kept getting calls from Room 904 — years after its resident died and the phone was removed.

Opened in 1892 and never closed a day since, Denver's triangular landmark is tied to socialite Louise Crawford Hill in Room 904, a phantom string quartet and a ghostly railroad conductor. History and October haunted tours run for visitors.

A ghostly postman still orders a beer in the Cruise Room — and never drinks it.

Denver's oldest boutique hotel opened in 1891 in LoDo. Room 320 is tied to Florence Montague's 1898 murder-suicide, and bartenders in the Art Deco Cruise Room report a postal worker who vanishes, leaving a full beer.

Stephen King checked into Room 217 in 1974 — and checked out with 'The Shining.'

Opened in 1909, this grand mountain hotel inspired Stephen King's novel after his stay in Room 217. It runs nightly ghost tours and reports piano music, laughter and apparitions in the concert hall and halls.

A woman in a floral dress still opens the window in Room 661 — and nobody's checked in.

Opened in 1893, this Italianate resort served as a U.S. Naval hospital during World War II. Guests and staff report nurse Bobbie's gardenia perfume, cigar smoke from 'Walter' and a woman in Room 661; rooms are bookable today.

The Navy's WWII jail still clangs its cell doors at night, visitors to this lakeside brig museum say.

The Brig is one of the last surviving buildings of Farragut Naval Training Station, WWII's second-largest naval training base, and reopened in 2025 after roof repairs as a museum inside Farragut State Park. Visitors report orbs, moving objects and apparitions in uniform; the museum opens seasonally, roughly Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Joe the projectionist died on the booth stairs in the 1950s — his laugh still rolls through the empty house.

Boise's 1927 Egyptian Revival movie palace is a working concert and film venue downtown. Staff report doors opening, lights switching and a presence in the balcony; the theater was featured on Travel Channel's Ghost Stories in 2009.

Ten men hanged in the gallows room of this 1870 territorial prison — tours walk you right under it.

Built in 1870 and operated for 101 years, the Old Pen is one of only four territorial prisons open to the public, run by the Idaho State Historical Society with daily self-guided and guided tours. Its October Fright Nights lean into its escapes, scandals and executions.

The 1959 riot left cannon scars in the cell house — and footsteps that still patrol the wall walk.

Montana's territorial prison, built by inmate labor from 1871, is now a museum complex offering guided and self-guided tours through the cell house, maximum-security 'black box' and gallows. The museum closes for winter (early Dec to mid-Mar).

Montana's best-preserved ghost town still has its gallows — and the sheriff the vigilantes hanged.

Founded in 1862 on Montana's first big gold strike, Bannack was the territory's first capital and is now a state park with 60+ original buildings open to walk through. Sheriff Henry Plummer was hanged here by vigilantes in 1864, and ghost lore clings to the Meade Hotel and gallows.

A woman in a yellow gown drifts down the third-floor hall, trailing French perfume.

Red Lodge's first brick building opened in 1893 and once hosted Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane; it operates today as a 39-room historic hotel. Staff also named a friendly ghost 'George,' blamed for ringing phones and fingerprints on clean mirrors.

The bullet holes from the fatal 1915 poker game are still in the wall — and the loser is still at the table.

Built in 1913, this stamped-tin saloon southwest of Las Vegas still serves food and drinks daily, with a Ghost Burger on the menu and haunted lockdown events. Clark Gable waited here for news of Carole Lombard's 1942 plane crash; staff report a cheated poker player and an old miner at the bar.

You sign a waiver before entering 30+ rooms of cursed objects — starting with the Dybbuk Box.

Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans opened this guided-tour museum in 2017 inside downtown's 1938 Wengert Mansion, itself tied to dark-ritual lore. Exhibits include the Dybbuk Box, Peggy the Doll, the Devil's Rocking Chair and Dr. Kevorkian's van; open Wed-Mon, ages 14+.

The Lady in Red was murdered on the fifth floor — she still whispers in guests' ears and leaves pearls on pillows.

Built in 1907 and once Nevada's tallest building, this restored Tonopah landmark was voted USA Today's #1 Haunted Hotel and sells its Lady in Red room to overnight guests. Phantom children are also reported playing in the halls.

'America's scariest motel' sleeps 31 horror-themed rooms of clowns — right next to the old miners' cemetery.

Opened in 1985 beside the historic Tonopah Cemetery, where victims of the 1911 Belmont Mine fire are buried, this operating motel packs thousands of clown figures into its free lobby museum. Rooms are themed for IT, The Exorcist, Halloween and Friday the 13th, and it featured on Ghost Adventures.

A little girl in a white dress visited Johnny Depp here — the silver baron's mansion now sells paranormal night tours.

Built in 1860 for mining magnate John Mackay and survivor of the 1875 Great Fire, this Comstock mansion museum offers daily guided tours and bookable nighttime paranormal investigations. Staff report two little girls, a Victorian woman and sounds on the staircase.

Rosie haunts Room 11 — taped voices and footsteps in a hotel whose chapel once doubled as a morgue.

Rebuilt in 1876 after the Great Fire, Virginia City's oldest hotel keeps 28 period rooms with no TVs or Wi-Fi, an 1870s saloon and the state's oldest wedding chapel. Guests book Room 11 for reported voices and footsteps attributed to Rosie.

Nevada's oldest saloon keeps a crypt where bodies waited out the frozen winters — tours climb all three haunted floors.

The 1862 Washoe Club, Virginia City's oldest saloon and former Millionaires' Club, now runs daily 40-minute haunted museum tours through its crypt and spiral staircase, plus overnight investigations. It has featured on Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters.

Allison, the girl who fell from the scaffolding in 1924, still takes a seat next to audience members.

This restored 1924 Egyptian Revival movie palace is an active performing-arts venue in downtown Ogden. Staff and guests report a 12-year-old girl, Allison, near the stairs and private boxes, sometimes heard playing the piano.

After the 1944 Bagley train disaster killed 48 people, footsteps and children's voices followed the trains out.

Ogden's 1924 Union Station at the west end of Historic 25th Street now houses railroad, auto and firearms museums open to the public. Reports include a woman in the upstairs halls, phantom children and poltergeist activity; Ogden ghost tours meet at its plaza nightly.

Park City ghost tours say a child's voice still echoes through this 1889 schoolhouse-turned-hotel.

Built in 1889 as Park City's schoolhouse, this limestone landmark on the National Register now operates as a 12-room luxury boutique hotel steps from Main Street. Park City Ghost Tours retell the story of a playful child ghost said to be heard inside.

Butch Cassidy, Calamity Jane and Teddy Roosevelt drank here — some of the regulars never left.

Founded in 1880 and fully restored, this downtown Buffalo hotel and 1908 saloon host paranormal investigations and report a self-playing piano, flying bottles and activity in the Prairie Cowboy Room. Rooms are bookable year-round.

Bride Rosie caught her husband cheating on their honeymoon — all three of them are still seen on the second floor.

This 1911 downtown Cheyenne landmark still operates as a hotel. Legend holds that bride Rosie shot her husband and his lover, then herself; guests report her figure in a blue gown, plus cries attributed to Room 444.

Buffalo Bill built it in 1902 — guests say he still walks it, cigar smoke and all.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody built this hotel in 1902 and named it for his daughter Irma, whose former room and a rocking chair feature in guest reports. The hotel and restaurant operate today, famous for the cherrywood bar gifted by Queen Victoria.

Wyoming's old state pen: 80 years of hard time, a gas chamber and a gallows — and it still runs Halloween nights behind the walls.

The Wyoming State Penitentiary (1901–1981) is now a museum on the National Register. Guided tours run through three cell blocks, the cafeteria, the grounds and the Death House, with seasonal night events.

Julia Lowell never checked out — guests still meet her, a top-hatted gentleman and a young boy in the halls.

Built 1898-1902 by the Phelps Dodge mining company, this 48-room Victorian hotel in Bisbee's historic district still takes overnight guests. At least three ghosts of people who died at or near the hotel are said to haunt it.

A self-described 'haunted hideaway' where 27 deaths are said to have happened behind a cheerful red-brick facade.

Built in 1908-1909 for mining executives in Old Bisbee, the Oliver House is now an adults-only bed and breakfast with a speakeasy. It has been featured on Travel Channel and Ghost Adventures for its paranormal reputation, centered on Room 13 and the hallway where Nat Anderson was shot.

Room 333 flickers and knocks — and a tall headless figure is said to walk the basement.

Opened in 1907 and rebuilt in 1929 after a fire, this five-story National Historic Site hotel in the border town of Douglas is known for its white marble staircase and Tiffany stained-glass mural. Its hauntings have been featured on TV ghost shows including Sightings.

A phantom bellboy knocks, announces room service — and vanishes before you open the door.

Opened New Year's Day 1927 in downtown Flagstaff and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Monte Vista still operates as a hotel. Reported spirits include the phantom bellboy in Room 210, a rocking-chair ghost in Room 305 and a bank robber who died in the lounge in 1970.

A former hospital where thousands died — Room 32 is called its most haunted room.

The 1926 United Verde Hospital became the Jerome Grand Hotel in 1997 and is a National Historic Landmark overlooking the Verde Valley. Guests report footsteps, voices and elevator activity linked to its hospital past, and the hotel runs ghost hunts on select nights.

140 bullet holes, the West's longest poker game — and voices still caught on tape after dark.

Opened in 1881 as a saloon, gambling hall, theatre and brothel, the Bird Cage is now a museum open daily with self-guided tours. Its official site calls it ground zero for paranormal activity and offers nightly ghost tours.

Seven men hanged in its courtyard — the recreated gallows still stands inside this 1882 courthouse.

Arizona State Parks operates this two-story Victorian Cochise County courthouse, built in 1882, as a museum open daily. Exhibits cover Tombstone's silver-boom history, the original courtroom and jail, and the hangings carried out in the courtyard.

Arizona's richest gold mine built this town — its flashlight ghost tours walk streets the miners never really left.

Founded in 1863 around the Vulture Mine, Vulture City is a restored ghost town with 19+ original buildings open for self-guided tours, with a free guided history tour Sundays at 11am. The official site sells tickets online for the season (Thu-Sun, 10am-3pm, mid-October through mid-May) and lists flashlight ghost tours and paranormal investigations.

Mary Colter's last great Harvey House — investigators report footsteps and a watched feeling in its halls.

Opened in 1930 as a Fred Harvey railroad hotel on Route 66 and restored in the 1990s, La Posada still operates as a hotel, restaurant and art museum. AAA's Haunted Route 66 guide reports ghost hunters sensed unseen guests and captured EVPs here; the hotel itself downplays the activity.

A former railroad hospital and psychiatric facility where guests say the sheets get pulled off in the night.

Built in 1926 as the Santa Fe Railway Hospital and later a children's psychiatric hospital, the building sat abandoned before reopening as a boutique hotel in 2010. Patients reported hauntings in the hospital era, and guests and a 2011 investigation reported voices and a watched feeling.

Leave donuts backstage for Bobby — remove them, and the show falls apart.

The City of Albuquerque operates this 1927 Pueblo Deco picture palace on Route 66 as a 650-seat performance venue, with public 'Meet the KiMo' tours. Bobby Darnall, a boy killed in a 1951 boiler explosion, is said to trip performers and tinker with lights; casts keep a shrine of donuts and toys for him backstage.

Room 18 is never rented — it belongs to T.J. Wright, shot after winning a poker game.

Built in 1872 on the Santa Fe Trail, this National Register hotel and saloon hosted Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, and its dining-room ceiling still shows bullet holes. At least 26 deaths are linked to the hotel; its current operator actively offers rooms and dining.

In Room 307, maid Irene is said to creak the floorboards and leave faces in the wallpaper.

This 1892 sandstone hotel in Clayton — named New Mexico's most haunted town by the state tourism department in 2018 — still operates with 25 guest rooms, a saloon and a restaurant open Thu-Sat nights. Its saloon ceiling still bears bullet holes from its Wild West days.

Rebecca the chambermaid still lights the fireplaces and slides objects across tables at 9,000 feet.

Established in 1899 as a mountain railroad resort in the Sacramento Mountains, The Lodge still operates as a hotel, golf resort and spa. Its restaurant, Rebecca's, is named for its resident ghost, a chambermaid said to have been murdered by a jealous lover.

Former owner Byron T. Wells still keeps an eye on Room 310 — the saloon downstairs is named for him.

Built in 1882 as the 'Belle of the Southwest' and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Plaza Hotel still overlooks Old Town Plaza and takes guests. New Mexico's official tourism site says Byron T.'s ghost haunts the hotel, most strongly in his former office, Room 310.

Josefita Otero still rocks in her chair at the top of the stairs of her adobe Victorian mansion.

Built in the 1880s for the Luna-Otero family and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the mansion's restaurant closed in 2020; it now operates as a landmark event venue hosting public events, tours by inquiry and a ticketed haunted house in October 2026. Josefita, who died in 1951, is said to be seen on the staircase and upper floor.

Judge Slough was shot dead in the lobby in 1867 — and a salesman is said to leap forever into the old well beneath the restaurant.

An inn has stood on this Santa Fe Plaza site since the early 1600s; the current Pueblo Revival hotel opened in 1922 and still operates as the only hotel on the Plaza. Reported ghosts include Judge John P. Slough, a murdered bride and a salesman who died in the hotel well.

Two sisters tried as witches are said to still wander the lane outside America's oldest house.

This adobe house in Santa Fe's Barrio de Analco, with timbers dated to the 1700s and roots claimed to the 1600s, is open daily as a free museum (donations suggested) with an attached shop. Santa Fe's official tourism site recounts its witch-trial legend and the spirit seen outside the house.

The carrier that recovered Apollo 11 runs after-hours 'History Mystery' tours of its paranormal hot spots.

The WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet, now a museum ship at former Naval Air Station Alameda, is open for daytime tours plus ticketed after-hours History Mystery ghost tours and overnight investigations. The ship served in WWII and Vietnam and recovered the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts.

A lighthouse on a volcanic rock in the fog — keepers' families lived, and some say stayed, in total isolation.

Point Sur Lightstation, a California State Historic Park in continuous operation since 1889, is the only complete lighthouse of its era open to the public in California. It is accessible only on guided three-hour walking tours on select days, first come, first served.

Kate Morgan checked in alone in 1892 and never left — The Del runs a nightly tour in her footsteps.

The 1888 Victorian beach resort, a National Historic Landmark, still takes guests and runs nightly Haunted Happenings tours about Kate Morgan, who died at the hotel in 1892. Her former room is linked to flickering lights, self-switching TVs and a figure in black.

A Romanesque reform-school castle where housekeeper Anna Corbin was found murdered — and never left.

Built in 1894 as the Preston School of Industry reform school, the castle is preserved by the Preston Castle Foundation and open for guided and self-guided tours, paranormal investigations and an October haunt. It has been featured on Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters.

Sleep in a stateroom on the Grey Ghost — cabin B340 is so active it comes with its own ghost lore.

The 1936 ocean liner, permanently docked in Long Beach since 1967, operates as a full-service hotel, museum and tour venue with 346 staterooms. Its tours lean into reported paranormal activity from its luxury and wartime service.

Marilyn Monroe in the mirror, Montgomery Clift's trumpet in Room 928 — the first Oscars host never emptied.

Opened in 1927 on the Walk of Fame and host of the first Academy Awards in 1929, the Roosevelt still operates as a hotel. Guests and staff report Monroe's reflection in a mirror from her poolside suite and Clift lingering near Room 928.

Captain Hatt hanged himself here in 1912 — guests hear the old mill working in Rooms 207 and 208.

The inn occupies the 1880s Hatt Building and Napa Mill on the downtown riverfront and still takes overnight guests. Local lore ties footsteps, slamming doors and a woman in white to mill owner Albert Hatt Jr. and his wife.

Billed as America's most haunted house — built in 1857 on the site of a public hanging.

Thomas Whaley's 1857 Greek Revival home in Old Town also served as a courthouse, theatre and general store, and is now a museum open daily. It runs daytime self-guided tours, evening guided tours and after-hours paranormal investigations.

The Rock's cellhouse is said to echo with voices long after the last inmate left in 1963.

The former federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island is run by the National Park Service and reached only by the official Alcatraz City Cruises ferry from Pier 33. Day and night tours include the cellhouse audio tour.

Staircases to nowhere, doors into walls — Sarah Winchester built for 38 years to outrun the ghosts.

Sarah Pardee Winchester's 160-room Victorian mansion, built continuously from 1886 to 1922, is a California Historical Landmark open daily for guided mansion tours. Its official site notes its long-standing reputation for paranormal activity.

Calvin the shot card-cheat still haunts Room 308 — you can book his room, and Rose's Room 307, by name.

The 1911 Tudor-Craftsman inn, a National Register landmark, still takes guests and tells its hauntings on its own site: a Prohibition-era speakeasy and brothel on the third floor, featured on Ghost Adventures and The Dead Files.

The Lady in Blue drifts the balconies of the 1889 'Queen of the Mines' — and a headless chef works the basement.

Opened in 1889 during the gold rush and restored and reopened in 1993, the Geiser Grand still takes guests under its stained-glass Palm Court ceiling. It hosts guided haunted-history tours and ticketed paranormal investigations with Big River Paranormal.

Under the Merchant Hotel lies Portland's shanghaiing past — and Nina, the ghost who never surfaced.

Old Town Pizza & Brewing is the exclusive provider of guided tours into the largest intact section of Portland's legendary Shanghai Tunnels, beneath its Old Town restaurant. The 90-minute haunted underground tour ends with a beer tasting and a visit to the haunted Merchant Hotel ballroom.

Lumber baron Simon Benson still descends his grand staircase — and a boy on the 9th floor accepts candy tributes.

Opened in 1913 by Simon Benson and now a Hilton Curio hotel and Portland landmark, the Benson still takes guests downtown. Reports include Benson himself on the staircase, a woman in a long gown, self-opening doors and voices in the hallways.

The old county poor farm's residents never all left — a little girl walks the third-floor hallway.

Built in 1911 as the Multnomah County Poor Farm, the 74-acre Edgefield is now a McMenamins hotel, brewery and entertainment resort open to overnight and day visitors. Guests and staff report flickering lights, figures in hallways and children crying near the former infirmary wing.

Rue, the grey lady of the keeper's house, tidies up after guests — book Victoria's Room to meet her.

The 1894 light station's keeper's house on a cliff above the Pacific operates year-round as a bed and breakfast, a short path from the lighthouse tower. Its resident spirit Rue is linked to locked doors, light switches and a neatly swept pile of shattered glass.

Kate leapt from Room 306 for a lover who hadn't drowned — ask at check-in for the castle's ghost guide.

Built in 1892 as a private mansion and later a Jesuit college, Manresa Castle has operated as a hotel since 1968 and still takes guests. Its famous stories are Kate in Room 306 and a Jesuit student said to haunt the attic above Room 302.

A whole buried city sleeps under Pioneer Square — take the paranormal tour and investigate it with gear in hand.

The 75-minute guided tour walks the subterranean storefronts and sidewalks entombed when Seattle rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1889. The operator also runs a 90-minute Underground Paranormal Experience with investigative equipment, departing daily from Pioneer Square.

A real former morgue turned Seattle's premier haunt — on the site of the city's creepiest unsolved crime legend.

The Georgetown Morgue operates as a seasonal haunted-house attraction (2026 season Sept 25–Nov 7) in a building with a funeral-preparation and cremation history. It also runs short escape games on site.

Alice B. Toklas flickers the lights around Room 408 and plays piano in an empty penthouse.

Seattle's oldest boutique hotel, welcoming guests on First Hill since 1909, still takes overnight stays. Toklas, who studied music nearby in the 1890s, is said to drift the fourth floor, move drinks and play piano when no one is there.

Your pint arrives through the old mortuary's corpse door — Charlie appears in the Guinness mirror.

Kells occupies the basement of the 1903 Butterworth Building at Pike Place Market, Seattle's first purpose-built mortuary, and is open daily as a restaurant and pub. Reports include glasses sliding off the bar, shattering mirrors and a little girl trying to play with visiting children.

Henry the bouncer still patrols the basement stairs — and madam Kathleen watches in her purple dress.

The saloon, in an 1890s building in historic downtown Snohomish, bills itself as 'Snohomish's legendary haunted bar' and is open daily for food, drinks and live music. Its lore centers on a former policeman-bouncer killed on the basement stairs and a resident madam.

The hotel keeps a guest ghost log — murdered police chief 'Black Jack' Sturgus returns yearly for justice.

Established in 1916 and the only Anchorage hotel on the National Register of Historic Places, it still takes guests downtown. Its own site confirms the haunting, naming Chief John J. Sturgus, found shot steps from the hotel in 1921, plus a Lady in White; activity centers on Rooms 215 and 217.

Alice was killed in this gold-rush hotel by the husband she'd waited for — her presence lingers in Rooms 218 and 219.

Opened September 16, 1913, the Alaskan is Alaska's oldest operating hotel, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and still takes guests above its historic bar in downtown Juneau. It was featured on Travel Channel's Portals to Hell.

A copper ghost town frozen in 1938 — the 14-story mill still holds the men's tools, clothes and stories.

The abandoned Kennecott copper mill town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is a National Historic Landmark; the NPS visitor center operates seasonally and the 14-story concentration mill can only be entered on St. Elias Alpine Guides' two-hour Mill Town Tour, the NPS concession tour. When the company left abruptly in 1938 it left equipment and personal belongings behind.

Madam Lydia still works the upstairs — take the 'Quickie' brothel tour, then the evening ghost walk.

Built in 1897 as one of Skagway's finest bordellos, the Red Onion is now a working saloon and restaurant whose upstairs brothel museum is open only on guided 20-minute tours. It also runs a 60-minute Ghost & Goodtime Girls walking tour.

An old woman in 1800s dress walks the halls on Kilauea's rim — and a white dog some call Pele keeps watch.

Volcano House, a series of hotels at the rim of Kilauea since 1846, is the only hotel inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; the current 1941 building has 33 rooms overlooking Halemaumau Crater. Guests and a former owner reported an elderly woman's apparition in rooms and hallways and a ghostly white dog on the entrance road.

Queen Liliuokalani's piano plays itself in the Blue Room — in the only royal palace on US soil.

Built in 1882 and the official residence of Hawaii's last monarchs, Iolani Palace is now a museum open Tuesday–Saturday for guided and audio tours. Reports include the Queen's cigar smoke, a light in a tower with no lights installed, footsteps and a lady in a black dress.

The 'First Lady of Waikiki' (1901) still hosts a Lady in White — Historic Hotels named it a Top 25 haunted hotel.

Waikiki's first hotel, opened March 11, 1901, still operates as a Westin resort on Waikiki Beach and offers free historical tours. Historic Hotels of America included it on its 2019 Top 25 Most Haunted Hotels list; lore centers on a woman in white seen on balconies and in the historic Banyan Wing.

By day a sweet plantation museum, by October night one of America's scariest walk-through haunts.

Hawaii's Plantation Village is an outdoor museum of plantation-era homes open year-round for guided tours; each October it becomes the Haunted Plantation, a reservation-only haunted attraction with dozens of live actors, recommended for ages 12 and up. Locals say the village itself is genuinely haunted.