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οΌ File placeRimsky-Korsakoffee House is a classical-music-themed coffeehouse in the Buckman neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, opened by Goody Cable i...
The Ottawa Jail Hostel occupies the former Carleton County Gaol, a jail on Nicholas Street in Ottawa, Ontario, that operated until its closure in 1...
Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 as Houston, Texas's first centralized municipal hospital for indigent patients, in the city's H...
Theatre in the Park is a community theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina, long led by executive director Ira David Wood III, known for playing Ebeneze...
The E. H. Harrison House is an 1857 residence in Keokuk, Iowa, built for banker and businessman Enos H. Harrison by local architect Frederick H. Mo...
Abbey House, also called Old Abbey House, is a 17th-century building on the corner of Beche Road and Abbey Road in the Abbey district of Cambridge,...
Cinnamon Hill is a Georgian great house on a former sugar plantation in St James Parish, Jamaica, overlooking the Caribbean sea near Rose Hall. Con...
Erasmus Castle, known locally as "Die Spookhuis" β the haunted house β is a large mansion built on a hill in the Erasmuskloof suburb of Pretoria, S...
Begunkodor railway station is a stop on the South Eastern Railway's Ranchi division, serving the villages of Begunkodor and nearby Jhalda in Puruli...
The SorrelβWeed House is a Greek Revival and Regency mansion on Madison Square in Savannah, Georgia, built for merchant Francis Sorrel and first op...
The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse stands on Hanlan's Point, part of the Toronto Islands in Lake Ontario, Canada. Begun in 1808, it is the oldest survi...
The Harvard Exit Theatre was a cinema on Seattle's Capitol Hill, housed in a 1925 building constructed for the Woman's Century Club, which still me...
Spook Bridge is an abandoned open-spandrel arch bridge crossing the Withlacoochee River on a closed stretch of the old U.S. Route 84, on the line b...
Ashmore Estates is a large brick building outside Ashmore, Illinois, built in 1916 as the second almshouse of the Coles County Poor Farm, which ope...
The Old Rectory in Epworth, Lincolnshire is a Queen Anne-style house rebuilt in brick in 1709 after fire destroyed the original wooden rectory, and...
Wat Samian Nari is a Buddhist temple on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in Bangkok's Chatuchak district, founded in 1857 as Wat Khae Rai and renamed in 1979...
The Island of the Dolls is a small chinampa (artificial island) in the canals of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. Its reclusive former caretaker, ...
Chaonei No. 81 is a red-brick house built in French Baroque style in the early 1900s, standing in the Chaoyangmen area of Beijing's Dongcheng Distr...
The Donaldina Cameron House is a 1908 building in San Francisco's Chinatown, built as the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House to serve as a...
Tai Tung is the oldest surviving Chinese restaurant in Seattle's International District, opened in 1935 by an immigrant from Hong Kong. Nine decade...
Jewett House, formally the Milo Jewett House and once known as North Hall, is a nine-story Tudor-style dormitory on the campus of Vassar College in...
King House stands at 4627 Ocean Street in Mayport, Florida, on land once used as a Spanish graveyard. An earlier building on the site burned down i...
Rocky Hill Castle was a plantation house between Town Creek and Courtland, Alabama, prized for its striking mix of neoclassical and picturesque arc...
The Teochew Cemetery is a sprawling burial ground of roughly 105 rai (about 17 hectares) in Bangkok's Sathon District, founded in 1899 and jointly ...
Inverlochy House is a Victorian-era residence in Wellington, New Zealand, built in 1878 for city councillor Kennedy Macdonald. Auctioned off in 189...
Changi Hospital is a former general hospital in Changi, Singapore, left empty since December 1997, when its operations wound down and merged into t...
Dudleytown is an abandoned settlement in the Dark Entry Forest of northwestern Connecticut, largely reclaimed by woodland since a land trust began ...
St. Louis is a small village in the Rural Municipality of St. Louis No. 431, Saskatchewan, Canada, founded by MΓ©tis settlers in the late 19th centu...
Market Street Cinema was a historic theater on Market Street in San Francisco's Mid-Market district, opened in 1912 by David and Sid Grauman as the...
University Heights Center is a former public school building at University Way and 50th Street in Seattle's University District, opened in 1903 as ...
The Old Washoe Club is a three-story brick building on C Street in the Virginia City Historic District, Nevada, built during the town's Comstock Lo...
Pioneer Park, also known as the Henry Webber House or WebberβPaepcke House, is a brick residence built in the 1880s on West Bleeker Street in Aspen...
Preston Manor is the former manor house of the old Sussex village of Preston, now part of Brighton and Hove, England. Much of the current building ...
The Chambers Mansion is a Victorian-era house built in 1887 at 2220 Sacramento Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, Califor...
Kenmore Asylum, later known as Kenmore Hospital, is a heritage-listed former psychiatric institution in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Built...
Waitomo Caves Hotel, originally opened in 1908 as Waitomo House and later run as a government hostel, stands above the Waitomo Caves in the King Co...
Dolley Madison, one of early Washington's most beloved hostesses, spent her last years at this Federal-style house on H Street overlooking Lafayett...
Opened in 1930 near Rock Creek Park, the Omni Shoreham Hotel has hosted presidential inaugural balls and decades of Washington power brokering in i...
Rising from the hills above Weston, West Virginia, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum opened in 1864, built on the Kirkbride Plan that Victorian ar...
Built around 1916 as a summer residence for Chicago businessman and later U.S. assistant secretary of commerce Robert W. Lamont, Summerwind stood o...
Washington State's oldest resort hotel, built in 1889 on a peninsula between the Pacific and Willapa Bay, carries a specific and often-told ghost s...
Built in 1799-1801 for planter John Tayloe III to a hexagonal-turned-octagonal design attributed to William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol...
The Hay-Adams opened in 1928 on the site of two adjoining mansions once home to statesman John Hay and historian Henry Adams, but its central ghost...
Boy Scout Lane, a narrow dirt road outside Stevens Point, Wisconsin, has circulated as an urban legend since at least the 1970s, most versions hold...
Known as the "Church of the Presidents" since James Madison first worshipped there in 1816, St. John's sits one block from the White House on Lafay...
Founded in 1762 along the Potomac River, Shepherdstown claims to be West Virginia's oldest town and has long promoted itself as one of the state's ...
Ferry Plantation House stands near the site where, on July 10, 1706, colonial authorities subjected Grace Sherwood, the so-called "Witch of Pungo,"...
Built in 1908 on land that had belonged to the Cowlitz people, this two-story Craftsman house in the timber town of Kalama, Washington, passed thro...
Built in 1903 for the Butterworth & Sons mortuary, one of Seattle's most prominent funeral homes of the era, this steeply stepped building on First...
Built around 1800 in Alexandria, Virginia, Colross carried its ghosts across state lines when the entire mansion was dismantled brick by brick and ...
Bremo is not one house but three, built between 1815 and 1820 on the James River by planter and reformer John Hartwell Cocke. The smallest of them,...
Kay's Cross stood in a wooded ravine known as Kay's Hollow above Kaysville, Utah, a large stone-and-mortar cross of uncertain origin that some acco...
Gadsby's Tavern, run by English innkeeper John Gadsby from 1796, hosted George Washington's last birthday ball in 1798 and was a hub of Alexandria'...
Lake Drummond, a shallow tea-colored lake of unexplained origin at the heart of the Great Dismal Swamp, has been haunted in verse since Irish poet ...
The first Saltair Pavilion opened on the Great Salt Lake's southern shore in 1893, a Moorish-domed resort built on pilings so Mormon-backed develop...
Utah's Great Salt Lake, the largest remnant of the vast Ice Age Lake Bonneville, has carried monster lore since Mormon pioneers arrived in the 1840...
Built around 1861 as the Stilley-Young House, The Grove has been called "the most haunted house in Texas" since paranormal investigators began docu...
Walburg is a tiny German farming settlement founded in the 1880s northeast of Austin, better known today for its dance hall than for scares β yet l...
Founded in 1875 as one of the first cemeteries organized by and for Houston's African American community after emancipation, Olivewood sits on six ...
Seth Bullock, Deadwood's first sheriff and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, built this brick hotel with business partner Sol Star in 1895 afte...
The current Orpheum Theatre opened in 1928 on Beale Street after fire destroyed the original 1907 vaudeville house. Staff and performers have long ...
Tennessee State Prison opened in 1898 on a bluff above the Cumberland River west of Nashville, its castle-like Gothic facade designed to intimidate...
The Baker Hotel opened on November 22, 1929, a seven-story Spanish Colonial Revival tower built by hotelier T.B. Baker to draw visitors to Mineral ...
Between 1817 and 1821, the family of farmer John Bell in Robertson County, Tennessee, reported being tormented by an invisible entity that scratche...
Naturalists have called this tangled mix of pine forest, swamp and prairie in Southeast Texas "the biological crossroads of North America," and the...
Commissioned in April 1943 as a replacement for the Yorktown sunk at Midway, this Essex-class carrier earned 11 battle stars fighting across the Pa...
Robert Mills, the architect later responsible for the Washington Monument, designed this Camden church, completed in 1822 in a restrained Greek Rev...
Nathanael Greene, who rose from a Rhode Island Quaker family to become George Washington's most trusted general in the Revolutionary War, built thi...
This 18-acre island in Narragansett Bay took its name, tradition says, from its rose-like shape at low tide, and by 1870 the U.S. government had bu...
William Backhouse Astor Jr. bought this Bellevue Avenue estate in 1880 for his wife Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, known simply as "the Mrs. Astor," ...
The museum occupies the Master Mechanics Building, raised by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1882 at the heart of the Altoona Works, once the largest ...
Thomas and Ann Drayton established a rice plantation on this site along the Ashley River in 1679, and ten generations of the Drayton family have ma...
Completed in 1925 as one of the last great Newport "summer cottages," this ChΓ’teauesque mansion was built for Edson Bradley and later became known ...
During King Philip's War, on March 26, 1676, a company of colonial soldiers under Captain Michael Pierce was ambushed by Narragansett warriors near...
Named for President John Adams and dedicated on July 4, 1799, the fort was rebuilt on a much larger scale between 1824 and 1857 as one of the large...
Richard Morris Hunt designed this roughly 60-room "cottage" for Gilded Age heir Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, completed in 1894 with stables built i...
Opened in 1889 during Baker City's gold rush boom, the Geiser Grand was advertised as "the Queen of the Mines" and the finest hotel between Portlan...
Built in 1883 along the stagecoach road between Sacramento and Portland, the Wolf Creek Tavern is one of the oldest continuously operating inns in ...
Built in the Second Empire style sometime around the 1870s near Lancaster, Ohio, this Rugh family farmhouse acquired one of the state's darkest loc...
Gold drew miners to Sumpter Valley in 1862, and by the early twentieth century three giant dredges chewed through the riverbed searching for it. Th...
A resort grew beside this thermal spring in eastern Oregon from the 1860s, but the hotel's grandest era began in 1907 when Dr. William Phy expanded...
Opened in 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, Pennhurst warehoused thousands of disabled childr...
Opened in 1851 as the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, this Harrisburg campus was the state's first public institution for the mentally ill, de...
A tavern opened along the road to Philadelphia around 1704, later named for Revolutionary War general "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who reportedly drank the...
Little survives of Moonville, a coal-mining hamlet founded around 1856 in Vinton County along the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, beyond scattere...
Built in 1856 by abolitionist George Willison Adams, this 29-room Italianate mansion in Trinway is said to have hidden fugitive slaves in a tunnel ...
In 1881, German immigrant banker Hannes Tiedemann began raising this Gothic stone mansion on Franklin Boulevard, adding turrets, gargoyles and a ma...
Built in 1790 and enlarged around 1834, the AttmoreβOliver House on Broad Street in New Bern, North Carolina, served as a Confederate and later Uni...
World War I veteran and Boy Scout troop leader Harry Andrews began building this stone castle above the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, by ...
Sims began as a booming coal town in 1883, but as the mines emptied and the town emptied with them, only the Scandinavian Lutheran church and its p...
Hatter Joseph Brewster built this Federal-and-Greek-Revival townhouse at 29 East Fourth Street in 1832, and merchant Seabury Tredwell's family live...
Cincinnati Music Hall opened in 1878 on a site that had previously served as a potter's field, the city's burial ground for the poor, orphans and t...
Completed in 1899 after nearly three decades of construction and roughly $25 million spent β an enormous sum for a government building at the time ...
Built in 1765 by British officer Roger Morris on a hilltop overlooking the Hudson and Harlem rivers, this is the oldest surviving house in Manhatta...
Deep in a stand of North Carolina pines near Bear Creek, a bare circle of ground roughly 40 feet across has resisted plant growth for as long as lo...
The Palace Theatre opened at 1564 Broadway in 1913 and quickly became vaudeville's ultimate proving ground β performers who "played the Palace" had...
Clear Comfort, the Victorian Gothic cottage on Staten Island where photographer Alice Austen lived and worked for most of her life, was believed by...
On June 15, 2007, a security camera at a Santa Fe, New Mexico, courthouse recorded a blurry, glowing shape drifting across a hallway after hours, f...
David Belasco built this Broadway house at 111 West 44th Street in 1907 as his personal theatrical showcase, complete with a private apartment abov...
The Penitentiary of New Mexico, south of Santa Fe, became the site of the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history on February 2-3, 1980, when inmates...
Active from 1811 to 1927, this small cemetery in South Wales, near Buffalo, held over a century of quiet burials before ghost stories began circula...
The Union Hotel has anchored Main Street in Flemington, New Jersey, since Neal Hart first built it in 1814, though the ornate Victorian facade stan...
Albuquerque's KiMo Theatre opened in 1927 in a lavish Pueblo Deco style blending Art Deco lines with Puebloan and Navajo motifs, and it carries one...
This Strip casino tower opened as the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on December 4, 1973, and for a few years stood among the largest hotels on Earth. ...
Clinton Road winds ten lonely miles through the Passaic County woods of West Milford, New Jersey, and by the 1970s had already become the state's s...
Built in 1799 by shipping merchant Archibald Gracie on a bluff overlooking Hell Gate, this Federal-style house has served as the official residence...
Built in 1914 for the Knights of Pythias, this three-story brick landmark in downtown Meridian later took the name of its owner, Pigford Realty, an...
Stuckey's Bridge crosses the Chunky River just outside Meridian, Mississippi, on a spot locals have tied for generations to a 19th-century highwaym...
Kansas City lumber baron Uriah Epperson completed this sprawling Tudor-Gothic mansion in 1923 as a wedding gift for his daughter Harriet, hiring an...
Elmwood Cemetery has held Kansas City's dead since 1872, its 43 rolling acres now shading roughly 35,000 graves beneath elaborate Victorian statuar...
The Palmer House opened in 1901 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the small prairie town Sinclair Lewis later mocked and immortalized in his novel "Main S...
Built in stages beginning around 1797 by Andrew Glass in what was then Walnut Hills β now Vicksburg, Mississippi β McRaven grew through the antebel...
The Lemp family built their mansion in the Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, as both home and showcase for the fortune built by the ...
Perched on a bluff above Lake Superior roughly 24 miles northwest of Marquette, the Big Bay Point Light began operating in 1896 to guide freighters...
Named after Eloise Dickerson Davock, daughter of a Detroit postmaster, the Eloise complex in Westland, Michigan grew from a 19th-century poorhouse ...
Once a stop on Route 66, Avilla is now a near-ghost town in Jasper County with barely a hundred residents β and a Civil War legend that refuses to ...
Completed in 1898 for $24,000 in the Second Empire style, Morrill Hall β originally called Science Hall β is the oldest continuously used academic ...
Founded in 1946 by Owen Edward Brennan in New Orleans' French Quarter, Brennan's restaurant became a Creole culinary institution, credited with inv...
The honky-tonk that country singer Bobby Mackey ran in Wilder, Kentucky, built its reputation on a genuinely dark local history: the site sits near...
Stull, an unincorporated Douglas County community founded in 1857 as "Deer Creek" by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers before being renamed for postmaste...
Built around 1675 for Judge Jonathan Corwin, who lived there for more than forty years, the Jonathan Corwin House in Salem, Massachusetts is the on...
Author Edith Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902 on a hillside in Lenox, Massachusetts, calling it her "first real home" and using its lay...
Commissioned in 1949 as the last of the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers, USS Salem (CA-139) patrolled the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the ten...
Incorporated in 1881 and opened to the public in 1885 in Evansville, Indiana, Willard Library is the oldest public library building in the state st...
The three-story brick building at 21 West Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia, was constructed in 1821 as the City Hotel, one of the first hotels in a ...
Founded in 1851 with the burial of Alexander Ramsey, this Effingham County cemetery near Shumway sits beside a set of sandstone rock shelters carve...
This small family burial ground in Fishers, Indiana dates to 1812 and holds Hamilton County's oldest known grave marker. Its ghost story centers on...
Opened in 1907 in Concordia, Kansas, and once billed as "the most elegant theater between Kansas City and Denver," the Brown Grand Theatre has host...
Built around 1849 in the small village of Bull Valley, McHenry County, Illinois, the George Stickney House reflects its original owners' devotion t...
On the far northeast side of Indianapolis stood the home of Skiles Edward Test, an eccentric millionaire who, beginning in the 1940s and continuing...
Operated by the State of Illinois from 1902 to 1973 in Bartonville, near Peoria, the hospital was built under Dr. George A. Zeller on the progressi...
Built in 1909 as the first women's residence hall on an Illinois state university campus, Pemberton Hall at Eastern Illinois University in Charlest...
Hidden inside the Rubio Woods forest preserve in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery has been called the most haunted...
Laid out beside the Stepney Green in 1794, Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut holds the graves of the area's earliest settlers, its oldest sto...
Tucked off a quiet road in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Gunntown Cemetery has been used for burials since 1790, when Congregational families and Revolut...
Dating to the 18th century near Easton, Connecticut, Union Cemetery became one of America's most investigated haunted sites largely through the wor...
Opened in 1893 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, modeled on Italian Renaissance villas and built beside the town's famous hot springs, the Hotel Color...
Built in 1909 in an unusual Second Empire mansard style more fitting a mainland house than a lighthouse, New London Ledge Light sits on a stone pie...
Built in 1905 in West Palm Beach using materials left over from Henry Flagler's hotel construction, the Riddle House began life as the "Gatekeeper'...
The current St. Augustine Light Station, built between 1871 and 1874 on Anastasia Island, replaced an earlier tower and stands where Spanish and Br...
Completed in 1796, Hartford's Old State House carries more than two centuries of reported hauntings. Staff and visitors trace much of the activity ...
Built on marshy Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River and designed by engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten, Fort Delaware became one of the Union's larg...
Completed in 1856 for cotton planter Colonel Edward Watts in Selma, Alabama, Sturdivant Hall later passed to banker John McGee Parkman, whose story...
Built in 1857 by Thomas Whaley, the Whaley House in San Diego's Old Town stands on the site of the city's old gallows, where convicted horse thief ...
Opened in 1907 in the border town of Douglas, Arizona, the Gadsden Hotel became famous for its grand lobby staircase of Italian marble beneath a 42...
Built in 1844, this Calabasas adobe was home to rancher Miguel Leonis until his death in 1889. Reports of a haunting began in the 1920s, when new r...
Built between 1858 and 1860 for planter Edward Kenworthy Carlisle in architect Richard Upjohn's asymmetrical Italianate style, Kenworthy Hall β als...
Operating from December 1881 to 1889 in the booming silver town of Tombstone, Arizona, the Bird Cage Theatre earned its reputation as one of the wi...
El Adobe de Capistrano occupies two joined 19th-century adobe buildings near the mission, one of which once served as the town's jail and courtroom...
The 1873 Carpenter Gothic home Sherman Stow built for his bride Ida Hollister on the former Rancho La Patera is now run as a museum by the Goleta V...
On the edge of Newton, near a bridge over the Choctawhatchee River, stands the site remembered as "the hole that will not stay filled." In December...
Founded on 1 November 1776 by Franciscan friar JunΓpero Serra, Mission San Juan Capistrano suffered its darkest hour on 8 December 1812, when a pow...
This Tudor manor house, now a National Trust youth hostel on Wenlock Edge, is linked to Major Francis Smallman, a Royalist who lived there during t...
Built in 1883 for theatrical managers Howard and Wyndham, Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre is said among its staff to house the ghost of a former d...
Goodrich Castle's ruins on the Wye are tied to the legend of Alice Birch, a Royalist woman who during the English Civil War fell in love with a Par...
The Edinburgh Playhouse, opened in 1929 as a cinema before becoming Scotland's largest working theatre, is said to be haunted by a former stagehand...
Queensberry House on Edinburgh's Canongate carries one of Scotland's grimmest political legends. On 16 January 1707 β the very day the Duke of Quee...
Built from 1593 with 19th-century additions overlooking the Firth of Forth, Lauriston Castle is said to be haunted by Sophia Frances Stewart, belie...
On 9 May 1911, the stage of what was then the Empire Palace Theatre became the scene of one of Scotland's deadliest theatre disasters. The illusion...
Built into the nineteen arches supporting South Bridge, completed in 1788, the Edinburgh Vaults once housed taverns, cobblers' workshops and storag...
Alabama's first permanent state capital, Cahaba flourished briefly at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers after 1820 before repeated fl...
Huntingdon College, a Methodist liberal arts school in Montgomery, Alabama, traces its origins to 1854 and moved to its current campus in 1909. Gen...
Built in 1533 during the reign of Henry VIII, the Ringlestone Inn near Wormshill in Kent still stands on its original brick-and-flint foundations, ...
First recorded in 1042 as a manor belonging to Edward the Confessor, Wymering Manor is the oldest surviving building in Portsmouth, its timber-fram...
Built in 1779 on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Bodmin Jail was Cornwall's principal prison for nearly 150 years and the site of more than 50 public exec...
Rising above a wooded gorge in South Devon, Berry Pomeroy Castle combines a 15th-century fortress with a grand Tudor mansion built by the Seymour f...
In 1989 the Guinness Book of Records crowned Pluckley the most haunted village in England, citing an extraordinary cluster of twelve reported ghost...
Tucked at the foot of the Cotswolds outside Cheltenham, the small parish of Prestbury has earned a reputation as one of England's most haunted vill...
Weeks after the first pitched battle of the English Civil War was fought below this Warwickshire escarpment on 23 October 1642, leaving as many as ...
The scattered hamlets known collectively as "The Chutes" carry two separate ghost traditions. One tells of an elderly woman decapitated after her b...
On a lonely bend of a Dartmoor lane near Hound Tor stands a small mound known as Jay's Grave, said to hold the body of Mary Jay, an 18th-century or...
The road bridge over the River Itchen linking Northam and Bitterne Manor, in Southampton, carries a layered ghost tradition. The best-known story i...
The Eastgate Hotel stands on Oxford's High Street at the site of the old city wall's east gate, and its ghost story reaches back to the English Civ...
New College Lane, the narrow medieval passage in central Oxford beside New College, is threaded with ghost stories built on centuries of student li...
Hinton Ampner is the site of one of Georgian England's best-documented hauntings. Between 1765 and 1772, Mary Ricketts, tenant of the old manor hou...
Bursledon, a shipbuilding village on the River Hamble in Hampshire, carries several local ghost tales rooted in its industrial past. On Coal Park L...
Knighton itself is a quiet scatter of farmhouses on the Isle of Wight, but it sits beside the site of Knighton Gorges, a vanished manor burned down...
On 17 May 1649, three Leveller mutineers of the New Model Army β Cornet James Thompson, Corporal Perkins and Private Church β were shot by firing s...
Founded in 1239 for Cistercian monks on the shore of Southampton Water, Netley Abbey lived quietly for three centuries before Henry VIII's commissi...
Cut into the chalk hillside above West Wycombe between 1748 and 1752, the Hellfire Caves were commissioned by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the ...
Rufford Old Hall's blackened oak Great Hall has sheltered the Hesketh family since the late 1400s, its hammer-beam roof and movable rood screen sti...
Deep in the Hampshire countryside, Bramshill House has stood since around 1605, when Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, raised this vast Jacobean...
Hylton Castle has stood in Sunderland since the Hylton family first built here after the Norman Conquest, later rebuilt in stone around 1400, and i...
Beaulieu Abbey was founded in 1203β04 by King John, an unusual act of piety from a monarch better known for conflict with the Church, who populated...
Jingling Geordie's Hole takes its name from a 17th-century smuggler and pirate said to have used the cave, tucked into the cliffs between King Edwa...
Furness Abbey was founded in 1123 and grew into the second-wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England before its forced dissolution in 1537, when i...
Lumley Castle was built in the 1390s by Sir Ralph Lumley, and its best-known legend concerns Lily of Lumley, a Lady Lumley said to have been thrown...
Appuldurcombe House, the roofless shell of an 18th-century Baroque mansion on the Isle of Wight, is widely called the island's most haunted site. S...
Faringdon changed hands violently during the English Civil War, when Royalist forces fortified Faringdon House and endured a prolonged siege by Par...
Ordsall Hall has stood in Salford for more than 750 years, and for over three centuries it was the seat of the Radclyffe family, whose fortunes and...
Bruce Castle in Tottenham dates in part to the 16th century, and its best-known legend centres on Constantia Lucy, wife of a later owner, who is sa...
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane has stood on the same site since 1663, and the current building, opened in 1812, is home to Britain's most famous the...
Chislehurst Caves are entirely man-made, dug over some 8,000 years of chalk and flint mining that left 22 miles of tunnels beneath Kent, later used...
St Bartholomew-the-Great was founded in 1123 by Rahere, a courtier of Henry I who, according to the priory's own chronicle, survived a fever during...
Minsden Chapel has stood roofless and abandoned in the Hertfordshire fields since at least the 18th century, its ruined walls reclaimed by ivy and ...
Raynham Hall has been the seat of the Townshend family for nearly four centuries, and its most famous resident is not a Townshend at all but Lady D...
Eltham Palace was a favoured royal residence through the Middle Ages, and it was here in the 1490s that the young prince who would become Henry VII...
Littleport was a quiet fen-edge town until May 1816, when disbanded soldiers and impoverished farm labourers, driven by hunger and unemployment aft...
St Ives, the Cambridgeshire market town on the River Great Ouse, is home to one of the region's longest-documented ghosts: the Green Lady of the Go...
Flitwick Manor, a Georgian house in Bedfordshire now run as a hotel, is remembered locally for the sorrow of Mrs Brooks, wife of 19th-century owner...
Fort San began in 1917 as the Fort Qu'Appelle Sanatorium, built on the shores of Echo Lake in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley to treat the tubercu...
The Cloisters opened in 1907 in Letchworth, England's first Garden City, built at the expense of heiress Annie Lawrence as an experimental open-air...
RAF Elsham Wolds opened in 1916 and became a key Bomber Command station in the Second World War, home first to 103 Squadron and its Lancaster crews...
The A616 road cuts through South Yorkshire's Peak District fringe, and its Stocksbridge Bypass stretch has earned a reputation as one of Britain's ...
Belgrave Hall was built between 1709 and 1713 for a Leicester wool merchant, a handsome Queen Anne house that later passed through a string of pros...
Government House rose on the Regina plain in 1891, a limestone vice-regal residence built for the Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories...
RAF East Kirkby opened in August 1943 as a Bomber Command station for 57 and later 630 Squadrons, sending Avro Lancasters out over occupied Europe ...
Leicester's timber-framed Guildhall, with sections dating to around 1390, served for centuries as the city's courtroom, council chamber, and site o...
Althorp, ancestral seat of the Spencer family for over 500 years and the childhood home and burial place of Diana, Princess of Wales, carries older...
Dagger Woods, a small forested community east of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, has carried tales of a menacing presence since shortly after settlers arr...
The Tranquille site on Kamloops Lake began in 1907 as a tuberculosis sanatorium, treating thousands of patients through decades when the disease ha...
The small farming community of Caledonia Mills, in Nova Scotia's Antigonish County, became briefly famous around 1900 as the site of a mystery news...
The Skirrid Mountain Inn, in the shadow of the Skirrid hill near Abergavenny, claims a history stretching back some 900 years and a grim sideline a...
London, Ontario's Grand Theatre, opened in 1901 and rebuilt after a 1900s-era fire, is closely tied in local ghost lore to Ambrose Small, the flamb...
Built around 1610 for Sir John Trevor, Plas Teg is considered one of the finest Jacobean houses in Wales β and one of its most haunted. The best-kn...
French Fort Cove, now a nature park in Miramichi, New Brunswick, carries one of the region's oldest ghost stories: the Headless Nun. Tradition date...
Sker House, on the dunes near Porthcawl in south Wales, began as a Cistercian monastic grange more than 900 years ago before being rebuilt as a far...
The name Forbidden Plateau, on Vancouver Island's rugged interior, comes from a Comox First Nations tradition warning that the high alpine meadows ...
Completed in 1835 for Sir Allan Napier MacNab β a lawyer, railway promoter, and eventually co-premier of the Province of Canada β Dundurn Castle in...
Built in the 17th century as Aberdeen's civic prison, the Tolbooth held debtors, witches awaiting trial, and condemned criminals within its thick s...
The ruined tower of Newark Castle, above the Yarrow Water in the Scottish Borders, carries one of the darkest reported episodes of the 17th-century...
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, a fortified Tudor house in the Rhymney Valley, is remembered in the history books for hosting King Charles I in 1645 during ...
Skipness Castle, on the Kintyre peninsula, is home to one of Scotland's gentler ghost stories: the Green Lady, a child-sized spirit with golden hai...
Opened on 26 February 1913, RAF Montrose was the first operational military airfield in Britain, and by the First World War it had already earned a...
Deep in Glen Lyon β a valley Scottish folklore calls "the longest, loneliest glen in Scotland" β Meggernie Castle guards a grim nursery legend. Acc...
Overlooking the River Tweed a mile from Peebles, the L-plan tower of Neidpath Castle owes its most famous ghost story to a real 17th-century traged...
On Scotland's exposed north coast, within sight of Orkney, the Castle of Mey (once Barrogill Castle) is best remembered as the beloved retreat of t...
Few Scottish fortresses carry as thick a weight of history β or hauntings β as Stirling Castle, crowned on its volcanic crag since the 12th century...
Wemyss Castle rises on the sandstone cliffs between East and West Wemyss in Fife, its oldest tower dating to the 15th century and its halls witness...
Perched above Knock Bay on the eastern shore of Sleat, Knock Castle β known in Gaelic as Caisteal Chamuis β has stood in ruin since the 18th centur...
Below Kellie Law in the East Neuk of Fife, Kellie Castle preserves parts dating to the 14th century beneath later additions by the Oliphant and Lor...
Long before it became Scotland's only open prison, Castle Huntly was a stronghold of the Lyon family, and local legend blames its haunting on a you...
Hill House was designed for publisher Walter Blackie by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald between 1902 and 1904, and passed...
At Kinnaird Head in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the 16th-century castle converted in 1787 into Scotland's first Commissioners of Northern Lights li...
Once known as Ruthven Castle before its 17th-century name change, Huntingtower Castle near Perth is home to Scotland's most romantic ghost tale, th...
Standing alone in the remote valley of Hermitage Water in Liddesdale, on the Scottish Borders, Hermitage Castle has long been called one of the mos...
Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire, with parts dating to the 13th century, is bound to two intertwined curses and a famous Green Lady. Legend holds that...
Seat of the Dukes of Argyll on the shore of Loch Fyne since the 18th century, Inveraray Castle is said to be haunted by a phantom harper, the ghost...
The ruined royal residence of Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1542, carries one of Scotland's best-recorded royal omens. A...
Overlooking the Firth of Clyde at Gourock, Castle Levan traces its origins to the 14th century, though most of the surviving tower dates from an en...
Near Clarencefield in Dumfries and Galloway, the 15th-century tower house of Comlongon Castle carries the tragic legend of Marion Carruthers, a you...
On the wooded southeast shore of Loch Ness, Boleskine House became notorious after occultist Aleister Crowley bought it in 1899 and spent months th...
On the shore of Loch Crinan in Argyll, Duntrune Castle claims the title of Scotland's oldest continuously inhabited castle and carries one of the c...
Duns Castle, whose massive Norman keep is traditionally dated to around 1320, stands within a wooded estate outside Duns in Berwickshire, in the Sc...
Craignethan Castle, above the River Nethan, is known in Scottish ghost-lore for a headless apparition linked to Mary, Queen of Scots. Tradition hol...
Twelve miles southeast of Edinburgh, Borthwick Castle β one of Scotland's largest and best-preserved medieval tower houses, built in 1430 for Sir W...
Perched on cliffs above the Firth of Clyde near Maybole, Culzean Castle β remodeled by Robert Adam for the Kennedy family starting in 1777 β sits a...
Craigdarroch House near Moniaive was the seat of the Fergusson chiefs for six centuries. Local tradition ties its haunting to Elizabeth, wife of Co...
Built in 1907 for the exiled Duchess of Sutherland and later run as a youth hostel until 2011, Carbisdale Castle collected ghost stories from gener...
Ballechin House, a Georgian mansion near Grandtully in Perthshire, became one of the most scrutinized hauntings in Victorian Britain after Major Ro...
Standing on the shore of Sinclair's Bay near Wick in Caithness, the early-16th-century tower of Ackergill is bound to the tragic legend of Helen Gu...
Tucked between Chryston and Moodiesburn in North Lanarkshire, Bedlay Castle began as a residence for the Archbishops of Glasgow before passing to t...
Rising on the banks of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie in Fife, Balgonie Castle's 14th-century keep is said to shelter one of Scotland's mo...
Cumberland College, a University of Otago residence in Dunedin, occupies the former Dunedin Hospital Nurses' Home, a building completed in 1916 and...
Airth Castle overlooks the village of Airth and the River Forth in Scotland's Falkirk area, its oldest surviving tower dating back to at least the ...
Ben Macdui, at 1,309 metres the second-highest peak in the British Isles, sits at the heart of Scotland's Cairngorm plateau and is home to the coun...
The A75 runs roughly 95 miles across southwest Scotland, linking the Cairnryan ferry terminals near Stranraer to the English border at Gretna, and ...
St. John's Orphanage opened in Goulburn, New South Wales, in 1913, its foundation stone blessed by Bishop John Gallagher, and it housed boys under ...
Nam Koo Terrace, a Grade I historic building at 55 Ship Street in Wan Chai, was built around 1918 for a wealthy Chinese opera patron and later, acc...
The SS V.A. Fogg, a T2 tanker originally launched in 1943 as the Four Lakes, was carrying benzene and other chemicals when she exploded and sank in...
Melbourne's Princess Theatre, rebuilt in its current Second Empire style in 1886, holds Australia's most famous theatrical ghost story. On March 3,...
The nine-storey Sai Ying Pun Community Complex on Hong Kong Island's High Street stands on the site of the old Victoria Mental Hospital, built in t...
The SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a T2 tanker converted to haul molten sulphur, left Beaumont, Texas, on February 2, 1963, bound for Norfolk, Virginia, ...
Ballygally Castle was built in 1625 by James Shaw, a Scottish settler, on the Antrim coast overlooking Ballygally Bay, and it now operates as a hot...
The five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering, launched in 1919, was found run hard aground on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on J...
The Sargasso Sea is the only sea on Earth with no coastline, a still, current-bound patch of the North Atlantic held in place by the Gulf Stream, t...
Robert Hall Tinker, a wealthy Rockford industrialist, built his Swiss Cottage between 1865 and 1870 after touring Europe and falling in love with A...
Camp Chase opened in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1861 as a Union training camp and later held thousands of Confederate prisoners of war; more than 2,260...
Skinwalker Ranch, a roughly 512-acre property near Ballard in Utah's Uintah Basin, took its current name from the Navajo skin-walker legend after t...
Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire is one of England's best-preserved medieval manor houses, its great timber-framed hall dating to around 1460....
Yuma Territorial Prison opened on July 1, 1876, in the Arizona desert and quickly earned the nickname 'Hell Hole' for its brutal summer heat, cramp...
Built in 1858 to replace an overcrowded facility in Alton, Joliet Correctional Center held some of Illinois's most notorious inmates for nearly a c...
The White House has hosted ghost stories since well before it burned in the War of 1812. First Lady Abigail Adams reportedly saw her own laundry-ha...
Bermuda, the British territory that gives the Bermuda Triangle its more familiar name, sits at one corner of the roughly triangular stretch of ocea...
Opened in 1911 by oil baron W. B. Skirvin, the Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City built its ghost story around a chambermaid named Effie, said...
Casa Loma rises above midtown Toronto, a Gothic Revival castle built between 1911 and 1914 for financier Sir Henry Pellatt, who wanted secret passa...
The Old Talbott Tavern has served travelers in Bardstown, Kentucky since 1779, claiming the title of the state's oldest still-standing building and...
The Glen Tavern Inn opened in Santa Paula, California in 1911 and quickly became a stop for silent-film crews shooting westerns in the surrounding ...
Hotel Union Square opened at 114 Powell Street in San Francisco in 1908, later running a Prohibition-era speakeasy in its basement that counted cri...
Colombia's presidential palace stands on the plot where independence leader Antonio NariΓ±o was born β and, by most tellings, where he was later imp...
Murphys Hotel has operated in the Sierra foothills town of Murphys, California since 1856, when it served Gold Rush miners and later hosted guests ...
The Jean Bonnet Tavern has stood at a rural crossroads outside Bedford, Pennsylvania since around 1762, serving travelers on what became U.S. Route...
The Hotel del Coronado opened its Victorian beachfront halls near San Diego in 1888, and four years later became the site of the resort's most endu...
Built in 1862 for the rector of Borley, Essex, Borley Rectory became known as "the most haunted house in England" after psychic researcher Harry Pr...
Marta Becket arrived at the crumbling Corkhill Hall in Death Valley Junction in 1967 after a flat tire stranded her nearby, and she spent the next ...
Beechworth Asylum, known officially as Mayday Hills Hospital, opened in 1867 in Victoria, Australia, and operated for 128 years before closing in 1...
Al Jazirah Al Hamra, on the coast south of Ras Al Khaimah, was abandoned almost overnight around 1968 when its Za'ab tribe residents relocated to A...
Restored in 1711 under King Thai Sa, Wat Kudi Dao sits away from Ayutthaya's main tourist island, and its isolation has fed a specific ghost story....
Frankenstein Castle sits on a wooded ridge above Darmstadt in Germany's Odenwald, its ruins dating to around 1250. Its enduring fame rests on Johan...
Norwich State Hospital opened in October 1904 on the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut and grew to more than 30 buildings across 900 acres b...
Shard End Lake in Birmingham began as an ordinary gravel quarry before flooding created the fishing lake now managed within Kingfisher Country Park...
Aradale Mental Hospital opened in Ararat, Victoria in 1867 as the Ararat Lunatic Asylum and, at its peak, housed more than 1,000 patients across do...
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland has been called "the most haunted castle in Britain," a reputation built over centuries as a Border stronghold...
Opened in 1864 in Green Point, Somerset Hospital is South Africa's oldest hospital β and, according to generations of nurses, one of its most haunt...
On the night of 17 August 1972, a janitor cleaning the school hall at St Catherine's claimed he was chased into the quad by a grey, shapeless form ...
Thailand's Government House, seat of the Prime Minister and Cabinet since the early 20th century, sits alongside a wider Thai tradition of haunted ...
At the Ratchaprasong intersection in central Bangkok stands the Erawan Shrine, erected in 1956 after workers building the adjacent Erawan Hotel suf...
In August 1971, MarΓa GΓ³mez CΓ‘mara noticed a crude face staring up from the kitchen floor of her home on Calle Real in BΓ©lmez de la Moraleda, JaΓ©n....
The Castle of Good Hope has stood watch over Cape Town since Dutch engineers completed its five bastions in 1679, and its dungeons still draw more ...
Bangkok's oldest public park has its own resident apparition: the White Lady of Lumphini, a figure joggers and cyclists report glimpsing at dusk, w...
Perched on a rocky spur above the ArgeΘ River and reachable only by climbing 1,480 concrete steps, Poenari Castle was the real mountain stronghold ...
Khao Lak was a quiet string of fishing villages and beach resorts on the Andaman coast of Phang Nga Province before 26 December 2004, when the Indi...
Completed in 1941 and rebuilt after the devastating 1945 Battle of Manila, City Hall's clock tower is the epicenter of the building's ghost lore. E...
Heavily damaged in the 1945 Battle of Manila and rebuilt in 1946, the Central Post Office building has accumulated decades of ghost reports from it...
When Seacliff Lunatic Asylum opened north of Dunedin in 1884, it was the largest building in New Zealand, a sprawling Gothic pile designed by Rober...
The Manila Film Center was thrown up in a matter of months in 1981 so it could host the First Manila International Film Festival in January 1982, p...
Mohatta Palace was built in 1927 as a lavish seaside summer home for Shivratan Mohatta, a Hindu businessman from Rajasthan, its pink Jodhpur sandst...
Whatipu sits at the wild southern edge of the WaitΔkere Ranges, where the Manukau Harbour meets the Tasman Sea across one of the most treacherous s...
St Bathans, once called Dunstan Creek, boomed as a gold and coal mining town during the Otago gold rush of the 1860s and 70s before slipping into q...
Built in 1571 by Spanish conquistador Miguel LΓ³pez de Legazpi at the mouth of the Pasig River, Fort Santiago anchored the walled city of Intramuros...
Founded in 1611 by the Dominican friar Miguel de Benavides, the University of Santo Tomas holds the oldest extant university charter in Asia, and i...
MalacaΓ±ang Palace has served as the seat of Philippine political power since Spanish colonial times, purchased by the colonial government in 1825 f...
Built in 1862 on a hill overlooking Napier's harbour, Napier Prison served as Hawke's Bay's main jail for 131 years before closing in 1993, making ...
This 1903 heritage building on Hood Street served as the Waikato District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's office before later becoming Diggers ...
Kingseat Hospital opened south of Auckland in 1932, built on the villa model of psychiatric care then in vogue, with dozens of self-contained ward ...
Seat of the Knights Hospitaller's Grand Masters from the 16th century and later the British Governor's residence, the palace carries a particularly...
Designed by Henry Eli White and opened in 1912 as His Majesty's Theatre, Wellington's St. James is regarded as one of New Zealand's most haunted st...
Aokigahara, the dense forest blanketing the northwestern base of Mount Fuji, grew up on lava rock left by the volcano's last major eruption in 864 ...
Built by the British colonial government between 1891 and 1895, Pudu Prison held Kuala Lumpur's condemned for over a century, its 394-metre perimet...
Long before it became a leafy Christchurch suburb, Riccarton was the site chosen in 1843 by Scottish brothers William and John Deans for the first ...
Opened in 1848 on the edge of what was then Guadalajara and closed to new burials in 1896, PanteΓ³n de BelΓ©n became the resting place of the city's ...
Himeji Castle's brilliant white ramparts hide one of Japan's most famous ghost stories, the legend of Okiku's well. According to the tale, first re...
Duckett's Grove rises from the Carlow countryside as a shell of Gothic towers and empty windows, all that remains of the grand seat the Duckett fam...
In the churchyard of this ruined medieval church, now St. Kevin's Park, Dublin folklore recalls Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, tortured and hanged in ...
Rising above Dublin at 383 metres, Montpelier Hill is dominated by the ruined "Hell Fire Club" lodge, built around 1725 by politician William Conol...
Overlooking St Stephen's Green in Dublin, the Shelbourne Hotel has hosted guests since the 1820s and witnessed major moments in Irish history, incl...
Charleville Castle, a Gothic Revival mansion bordering the town of Tullamore in County Offaly, Ireland, was built in the early 1800s for Charles Wi...
Lying in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido, the small island of Poveglia has been called "the most haunted island in the world," a reputa...
Beneath the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, the Catacombe dei Cappuccini hold roughly 8,000 mummified and skeletal bodies, a tradition that ...
Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin held some of the most consequential prisoners in Irish history, from participants in the 1798 rebellion to, most famously...
Built in the 1930s by English jute baron George Morgan as a private residence on the hill station of Kalimpong in West Bengal, Morgan House is now ...
In the desert district of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, Kuldhara stands as one of India's most famous abandoned villages, founded around the 13th century b...
Built in 1926 for textile magnate Grigorios Longos, this Neo-Byzantine red-brick mansion earned its dark reputation almost immediately. Within mont...
The ChΓ’teau de ChΓ’teaubriant, in the Loire-Atlantique region of France, grew from an 11th-century border fortress defending Brittany into a Renaiss...
Tucked inside the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in South Delhi, the Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb was built around 1529 for Jamali, a Sufi poet and ...
Deep in the Brittany countryside near the Paimpont forest, the moated ChΓ’teau de TrΓ©cesson is best known for the legend of the "Dame Blanche de TrΓ©...
In late 1967, the law office of attorney Sigmund Adam in Rosenheim, southern Bavaria, became the center of one of postwar Europe's most publicized ...
On the slopes of Mount Penteli northeast of Athens, Davelis Cave sits inside an ancient marble quarry that supplied stone for the Parthenon, and ta...
Set at the edge of the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, the ruined town of Bhangarh is widely promoted as "the most haunted place in India," to ...
Built in 1732 as the seat of the Peshwas who led the Maratha Confederacy, Shaniwar Wada in Pune, India, is remembered today as much for a murder as...
Rose Hall, overlooking the coast near Montego Bay, Jamaica, is inseparable from the legend of Annie Palmer, the so-called "White Witch of Rose Hall...
In June 2007, residents of a small park in Firmat, in Argentina's Santa Fe province, reported one swing on the children's playground moving back an...
In the forested foothills of Trinidad's Northern Range, the village of Lopinot takes its name from Charles Joseph, Count de Loppinot, a French roya...
The village of RΓΆykkΓ€, in the NurmijΓ€rvi municipality of southern Finland, is known locally less for its roughly 1,600 residents than for the aband...
On the coast of Zealand, Denmark, Dragsholm Castle has stood in some form for roughly 800 years and is often called one of Europe's most haunted bu...
Perched on a rocky spur above the meeting point of the Vltava and Otava rivers in South Bohemia, ZvΓkov Castle has long been nicknamed "the king of...
In the Patagonian city of Cinco Saltos, in Argentina's RΓo Negro province, the local cemetery holds one of the region's most visited graves: that o...
On February 1, 1974, a faulty air conditioning unit sparked a fire in SΓ£o Paulo's 25-story Joelma Building, then packed with roughly 800 people. Fl...
Sprengisandur is a windswept, largely lifeless highland route in Iceland's interior, running between the HofsjΓΆkull and VatnajΓΆkull glaciers, histo...
Deep in Canada's Northwest Territories, the Nahanni region earned the grim nickname "Headless Valley" after a series of unsolved deaths in the earl...
Construction began in 1978 on a resort of pod-shaped vacation homes near Sanzhi, Taiwan, modeled on the Finnish "Futuro house" design and intended ...
Hidden beneath the Selma Plateau in Oman, roughly 100 kilometers southeast of Muscat, Majlis al Jinn is one of the largest known underground chambe...
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman coined the name Bridgewater Triangle in the 1970s for a roughly 200-square-mile area of southeastern Massachusetts ce...
Broad Haven is a small seaside village on Wales's St Bride's Bay, but its lasting fame in mystery circles comes from February 1977, when pupils at ...
In Iran's Dasht-e Kavir, the Great Salt Desert, a remote stretch of shifting sand dunes straddling Semnan and Isfahan provinces has long been calle...
Wadi-us-Salaam, the 'Valley of Peace' near Najaf, is the largest cemetery on Earth, holding an estimated six million graves. Among the gravediggers...
West of the open Pacific south of Tokyo lies the Devil's Sea, known in Japanese as Ma no Umi, an area Japanese fishermen have regarded with unease ...
Tuol Sleng was a secondary school in Phnom Penh until 1976, when the Khmer Rouge converted it into Security Prison 21, one of the regime's most not...
The Sierra Nevada's most infamous ghost story traces back to the Donner Party, a group of 87 California-bound pioneers who became trapped by heavy ...
Bounded loosely by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, the Bermuda Triangle earned its ominous nickname in a 1964 Argosy magazine article by Vincent G...
Long before UNESCO listed it as Saudi Arabia's first World Heritage Site in 2008, Hegra β known in Arabic as Mada'in Salih, the "Cities of Salih" β...
West of Sedgwick, Kansas, a modest bridge over Jester Creek has carried the name Theorosa's Bridge since at least the mid-20th century, its wooden ...
In 1702, Yorkshire counterfeiter Thomas Busby was hanged near Thirsk after murdering his father-in-law, Daniel Auty, reportedly following an argume...
Grand Paradi Towers, a 28-story residential building completed in 1975 in Mumbai's Kemps Corner neighborhood, has earned a grim reputation as one o...
Annabelle is not the porcelain-faced doll of horror films but a soft Raggedy Ann toy, given to a nursing student in Hartford, Connecticut, by her m...
CΔlugΔreasca Forest, a dense stand of mulberry trees in Romania, is known locally for an eerie stillness β visitors say the wind never seems to blo...
Loftus Hall stands alone on the wind-scoured Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, its current Gothic form dating to 1870, built on the site of a much ...
The Crown Hotel in Poole, first licensed as the Crowne Inn in 1697, is often named the most haunted pub in Dorset. According to local tradition, in...
Le Manoir de Paris is not a centuries-old haunted house but something rarer: a haunted attraction built entirely from French folklore, opened in 20...
In Key West, Florida, a straw-stuffed doll named Robert has unsettled visitors since the early 1900s. Sailor and painter Robert Eugene Otto receive...
William Larnach, a wealthy banker and politician, spared no expense building his hilltop mansion on the Otago Peninsula from 1871, importing marble...
Dating from around 1145, when it is said to have first housed workers building the neighboring St Mary's Church in Wotton-under-Edge, the Ancient R...
Rebuilt from an older stronghold starting in 1446 by John Hunyadi, the Hungarian regent and celebrated defender against Ottoman incursions, Corvin ...
Built in stages between 1886 and 1910 in Mansfield, Ohio, the Ohio State Reformatory operated as a prison for over eighty years, housing young firs...
Leap Castle in County Offaly was the stronghold of the O'Carroll clan, an Irish family whose internal rivalries turned lethal inside its own chapel...
The Canadian Pacific Railway opened the Banff Springs Hotel in 1888 to draw tourists to the Rockies, and by the time the current stone chΓ’teau was ...
Opened in 1839 as one of London's "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries, Highgate's overgrown Gothic tombs and Egyptian Avenue became the backdr...
Just west of Cluj-Napoca, Hoia Baciu forest earned the nickname "the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania" after biologist Alexandru Sift began catalog...
On a chinampa β one of the ancient man-made islands threading through the canals of Xochimilco β caretaker JuliΓ‘n Santana Barrera began hanging dol...
Built in 1796 by planter David Bradford on land near St. Francisville, Louisiana, the Myrtles Plantation was worked by enslaved laborers before pas...
Waverly Hills opened in 1910 as a small wooden hospital to treat Jefferson County's tuberculosis patients during an epidemic locals called the "Whi...
Perched on a rocky outcrop between Wallachia and Transylvania, Bran Castle was built by Saxon guildsmen of BraΘov between 1377 and 1388 to guard a ...
When the overflowing Cemetery of the Holy Innocents began collapsing into neighboring basements in the late 18th century, Parisian authorities bega...
Aokigahara grew from lava flows left by Mount Fuji's eruption in 864, and the dense, root-tangled woodland that now covers that hardened rock is fa...
Built in 1909 by inventor F.O. Stanley, who moved to Estes Park seeking relief from tuberculosis, the Stanley Hotel earned its reputation for the p...
After the deaths of her infant daughter in 1866 and her husband, rifle magnate William Wirt Winchester, in 1881, Sarah Winchester moved to San Jose...
The ruined fortress crowning the Pyrenean peak of MontsΓ©gur marks the site of one of the darkest episodes of the Albigensian Crusade. After a ten-m...
Built in 1885 by pastoralist and politician Christopher William Crawley overlooking the town of Junee, Monte Cristo Homestead is widely promoted as...
Perched on the volcanic rock that has anchored Edinburgh since at least the Iron Age, Edinburgh Castle has seen so many sieges, executions, and imp...
Built around 1573 by Bhagwant Das for his son Madho Singh, Bhangarh Fort now stands as a ruin in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan, and the Archaeolo...
Eastern State Penitentiary opened its cellblocks in Philadelphia in 1829 as a radical experiment: total solitary confinement meant to force inmates...
Rising eight stories above the Loire Valley, the ChΓ’teau de Brissac is known as the tallest chΓ’teau in France β and, according to generations of re...
Poveglia sits alone in the Venetian Lagoon, and its history explains why locals call it cursed. From 1793 the island served as a checkpoint for pla...
The Tower of London has guarded the Thames since William the Conqueror raised the White Tower in 1078, and its long history of executions, imprison...