Once a year it’s cool to love ghouls, so plan a fall road trip to check out some spooky spots. Here are a few of our favorite creepy places that guarantee a haunting experience.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, Pa.
Brave souls who are looking to be spooked can experience Halloween Nights, featuring five haunted houses and other hair-raising attractions inside the crumbling cell blocks of this fortress-like penitentiary that once housed legendary criminals like mobster Al Capone. It’s visited by more than 60 paranormal investigators annually, but the Halloween mayhem goes on select nights from the end of September through early November.
Fort Delaware Paranormal Adventure
Delaware City, Del.
Fancy yourself an amateur ghost hunter? If so, join Diamond State Ghost Investigators and Fort Delaware State Park staff on a three-hour Paranormal Adventure at this abandoned fort located on an island and dating to before the Civil War. Available on Friday and Saturday nights throughout October, the tour uses actual electromagnetic field recorders, data recorders and temperature sensors in an effort to capture the footsteps and apparitions of one-time prisoners.
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum
Fall River, Mass.
Talk about a creepy place. You may not feel the infamous whacks that Lizzie Borden allegedly gave her parents here (she was tried and acquitted, and the murders remain unsolved), but book a room at this museum/bed-and-breakfast and you’ll certainly feel spooked. A tour offering bloodcurdling details of the 1892 ax rampage is given to every guest – getting more than a wink of sleep, however, isn’t guaranteed. Too timid to turn in? You can take a daytime tour.
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Mark Twain House and Museum
Hartford, Conn.
Check out the elaborate, 25-room, circa-1873 home where one of America’s most gifted writers – and a big believer in the supernatural – lived and wrote until financial hardship and tragic loss (his daughter Susy died here in 1896) forced its sale.
Mount Hope Cemetery
Bangor, Maine
Stephen King fans will recognize this spooky place as the film location for the movie adaptation of his seriously scary “Pet Sematary,” and Bangor as the fright writer’s place of residence. You can also take a self-guided daytime tour of America’s second-oldest garden cemetery – if you dare!
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Philadelphia, Pa.
This scholarly yet icky homage to medical oddities is also pretty darn creepy. Run by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mutter Museum’s collection includes 139 human skulls, plaster death casts of conjoined Thai twins Chang and Eng Bunker, slices of Albert Einstein’s brain and other bizarre keepsakes that will make you go “Ewww!”
Salem, Mass.
Salem’s dark history definitely adds to its appeal during spooky season. The Witch City embraces its reputation every October during the extremely popular Haunted Happenings Festival, but the creepy vibes linger on throughout the year. Explore Salem’s macabre past with a trip to the historic Witch House, Charter Street Cemetery, one of its many museums or a guided tour, like the Salem Witch Walk, led by well-known witch and owner, Lorelei.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
Some Halloween-themed tours are more captivating than spooky, but cemeteries? They’re certifiably creepy places. Lantern-lit night tours happen every weekend September-November at the burial ground made famous by the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane. Learn about more haunts in the area.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Weston, W. Va.
Are you brave enough walk the halls of a 19th-century psychiatric hospital that once housed 2,400 patients – and an unknown number who are said to haunt its rooms and hallways? If so, this National Historic Landmark is open for walk-in historic and paranormal tours from early spring through November.
Featured image: Lizzie Borden Museum and Bed and Breakfast. (Photo: Flickr / Stewart Robotham / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
This article has been updated and republished from a previous version.
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A scary place in NY City is the bathroom with the golden toilet in Trump Tower. It would surely make your list if you made it a top 10.
The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast. Could not stay there at night. The daytime was too much too ! Doors open and close by themselves, something keeps you almost not being able to turn around to look at the Borden’s pictures on a side table and one baby being held by his dad was laughing as though being tickled. Years ago went into the basement, forget about it, just couldn’t stay down there. It’s all fun and worth the visit.
Yes check out the book weird NJ there are some really supernatural locations in there
No spooky places in north New Jersey?