Haunted Museums

Amos J. Blake House Museum

Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire

According to the museum's curator, eleven ghosts reside in the Amos J. Blake House, not including the cat. The cat is a...

Andrew Johnson Birthplace

Greeneville, Tennessee

The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville preserves the homestead, tailor shop, and grave of the nation's...

Arkansas Air & Military Museum

Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Arkansas Air and Military Museum occupies the White Hangar at Drake Field in Fayetteville, one of the nation's few r...

Armstrong Browning Library

Waco, Texas

The Armstrong Browning Library on Baylor University's campus houses the world's largest collection of works by English p...

Audubon House & Tropical Gardens

Key West, Florida

Built in 1846 by sea captain and wrecker Captain John Geiger for his family, the Audubon House has been certified as hau...

B&O Railroad Station Museum

Ellicott City, Maryland

The B&O Railroad Station Museum in Ellicott City is one of the most actively haunted locations in a town that bills itse...

Barbara Fritchie House

Frederick, Maryland

Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862) was a 95-year-old widow who became an American folk legend when, according to poet John Gre...

Batsto Village

Hammonton, New Jersey

Batsto Village was founded in 1766 as an iron-making settlement deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, positioned where th...

Battleship North Carolina

Wilmington, North Carolina

The USS North Carolina rides at anchor in the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, a 45,000-ton battleship that earned 15 batt...

Battleship Texas

Galveston, Texas

The USS Battleship Texas was commissioned in March 1914, becoming the most powerful weapon in the world at the time. Lau...

Betsy Ross House

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Betsy Ross House is one of the most visited—and most haunted—sites in Philadelphia. Built over 250 years ago, with t...

Bigelow House Museum

Olympia, Washington

The Bigelow House is the oldest surviving residence in Olympia and one of the earliest still standing in the Pacific Nor...

Bodie State Historic Park

Bodie, California

Bodie was founded in 1859 after W.S. Bodey discovered gold in the eastern Sierra Nevada, though he died in a blizzard th...

Boothe Memorial Park

Stratford, Connecticut

Richard Boothe laid the foundation for his farmhouse in 1663, making this 32-acre estate along the Housatonic River one...

Boston Athenaeum

Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Athenaeum, founded in 1807, stands as one of America's oldest independent libraries and harbors one of litera...

Brookgreen Gardens

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Brookgreen Gardens, built on the grounds of four former rice plantations, is rich with the spirits of those who lived, w...

Byrd Park Pump House

Richmond, Virginia

Rising from the wooded banks of the James River like a medieval fortress, the Byrd Park Pump House has earned a reputati...

Calico Ghost Town

Yermo, California

Calico Ghost Town, located three miles north of Interstate-15 between Barstow and Yermo, was born during the silver boom...

Canfield Casino

Saratoga Springs, New York

The paranormal reputation of Canfield Casino is well-established. Visitors report the smell of cigar smoke wafting throu...

Canterbury Shaker Village

Canterbury, New Hampshire

During the Era of Manifestations in the 1840s, young Shaker women at Canterbury Village began whirling, dancing, and spe...

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland opened in 1895 as a gift from steel magnate Andrew Carnegie to the city. W...

Carpenter's Hall

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carpenter's Hall was built in 1770 for the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, the oldest surviving craft corporation i...

Collingwood Arts Center

Toledo, Ohio

The most frequently reported ghost is that of a nun who haunts the basement, her spectral form appearing to visitors and...

Congress Hall

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Congress Hall was built as the Philadelphia County Courthouse but served as home to the U.S. Congress from 1790 to 1800...

Coral Castle

Homestead, Florida

Coral Castle is one of the strangest structures in America—and one of the most mysterious. Built entirely of coral rock...

Dahlonega Gold Museum

Dahlonega, Georgia

The Dahlonega Gold Museum is housed in Georgia's oldest surviving courthouse, built with locally made brick that contain...

Deschutes Historical Museum

Bend, Oregon

The Deschutes Historical Museum occupies the Reid School, a handsome brick building completed in 1914 as Bend's first mo...

Dr Pepper Museum

Waco, Texas

The Dr Pepper Museum, housed in the 1906 bottling plant where the world's oldest major soft drink was first mass-produce...

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Richmond, Virginia

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum occupies the Old Stone House, built circa 1740 by German immigrant Jacob Ege, making it the o...

Ellis Island Immigration Museum

New York, New York

The hospital complex on Ellis Island is considered one of the most haunted locations in New York. Visitors and paranorma...

First Bank of the United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The First Bank of the United States was established in 1791 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, though the strikin...

Flatwoods Monster Museum

Flatwoods, West Virginia

On the evening of September 12, 1952, near dusk in the small town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, somethi...

Fordyce Bathhouse

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The Fordyce Bathhouse stands at the center of Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a collection of eight ornate bathh...

Fort East Martello Museum

Key West, Florida

Fort East Martello Museum occupies a Civil War-era brick fortress at Key West's eastern shore, originally built to defen...

Fort Vancouver

Vancouver, Washington

Fort Vancouver began as a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post established in the winter of 1824-1825 by Chief Factor J...

Fort William Henry Museum

Lake George, New York

The ghosts of the 1757 massacre remain at Fort William Henry. Visitors report shadow figures appearing in photographs ta...

Francisco Fort Museum

La Veta, Colorado

Francisco Fort was founded as a trading post in 1862 by Colonel John M. Francisco at the foot of the Spanish Peaks in Co...

Franklin Pierce Manse

Concord, New Hampshire

On January 6, 1853, two months before Franklin Pierce was to be inaugurated as the fourteenth president of the United St...

Furnace Town Living Heritage Village

Snow Hill, Maryland

The Nassawango Iron Furnace was built in 1830 by the Maryland Iron Company, the only furnace in Maryland to smelt bog or...

Galena & U.S. Grant Museum

Galena, Illinois

The Galena & U.S. Grant Museum, housed in a restored 1858 mansion, preserves the history of this once-wealthy mining tow...

General Lee's Headquarters

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

General Lee's Headquarters, also known as the Mary Thompson House, is a stone house built in 1833 on Seminary Ridge, wes...

George Eastman Museum

Rochester, New York

The Colonial Revival mansion at 900 East Avenue was built in 1905 for George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak. On March...

Glore Psychiatric Museum

St. Joseph, Missouri

The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, occupies a building that was once part of State Lunatic Asylum No....

Greenfield Village

Dearborn, Michigan

Greenfield Village is a collection of nearly one hundred historic buildings spread across two hundred acres in Dearborn,...

Hamill House Museum

Georgetown, Colorado

The Hamill House was originally built as a modest Country Gothic cottage by Joseph Watson during Georgetown's early silv...

Henry B. Plant Museum

Tampa, Florida

The Henry B. Plant Museum occupies the southeast wing of what was the magnificent Tampa Bay Hotel, built in 1891 by rail...

Historic Allaire Village

Farmingdale, New Jersey

Multiple spirits haunt the village, most notably Hal Allaire, son of the founder. Oscar Cheesman Smith, the iron works m...

Historic Huguenot Street

New Paltz, New York

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America, Historic Huguenot Street spans seven stone houses built by French H...

Historical Society of Saginaw County

Saginaw, Michigan

The Historical Society of Saginaw County operates out of the Castle Museum, a striking Romanesque Revival building const...

Hotel de Paris Museum

Georgetown, Colorado

The Hotel de Paris was built in 1875 by Louis Dupuy, a Frenchman from Alencon who had come to Georgetown to work as a mi...

Houdini Museum

Scranton, Pennsylvania

The Houdini Museum in Scranton is the only building in the world devoted entirely to the legendary escape artist Harry H...

Independence Hall

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Independence Hall, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is where the Declaration of Independence was debated and signed in...

Indiana Medical History Museum

Indianapolis, Indiana

The Indiana Medical History Museum occupies the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the United States, a 19-room br...

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Chicago, Illinois

The Jane Addams Hull-House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, became one of America's first settleme...

Jennie Wade House

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Twenty-year-old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade holds the tragic distinction of being the only civilian killed during the Ba...

Jesse James Home

St. Joseph, Missouri

On the morning of April 3, 1882, in a small rented house at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph, Missouri, the most famo...

Jonathan Hager House

Hagerstown, Maryland

Jonathan Hager, a German immigrant who arrived in Philadelphia in 1736 aboard the ship Harle, built this limestone homes...

Kirkman House Museum

Walla Walla, Washington

William Kirkman was born on December 7, 1832, in Bury, England, the son of a Scotch-Irish factory foreman. He crossed th...

Koreshan State Park

Estero, Florida

Koreshan State Park in Estero preserves one of Florida's strangest chapters—the settlement of a utopian cult that believ...

Lightner Museum

St. Augustine, Florida

The Lightner Museum occupies the former Hotel Alcazar, commissioned by railroad tycoon Henry Flagler in 1887 to accommod...

MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal stands as the sole survivor of what was once a thirty-six-acre military co...

Mark Twain House

Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House stands as one of America's most literary haunted locations. Built in 1874, this 25-room Victorian G...

Maryland State House

Annapolis, Maryland

The Maryland State House, completed in 1779, holds the distinction of being the oldest state capitol building still in c...

Merchant's House Museum

New York, New York

Dubbed "Manhattan's Most Haunted House" by The New York Times, the museum is believed to be haunted by Gertrude Tredwell...

Michigan Firehouse Museum

Ypsilanti, Michigan

The Michigan Firehouse Museum at 110 West Cross Street in Ypsilanti occupies a building constructed in 1898 that served...

Miramont Castle

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Miramont Castle was built in 1895 as the private residence of Father Jean Baptiste Francolon, a French-born Catholic pri...

Mission Espada

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, the southernmost of San Antonio's chain of Spanish colonial missions, was establishe...

Mission San Jose

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, established in 1720 and known as the "Queen of the Missions," stands as the lar...

Mission San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano, California

Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1776, is one of California's oldest and most storied missions. According to para...

Molly Brown Birthplace

Hannibal, Missouri

In a modest Irish immigrant's cottage on Hannibal's Denkler Alley, Margaret Tobin was born in 1867 to working-class pare...

Monroe County History Center

Bloomington, Indiana

The Monroe County History Center occupies the former Monroe County Carnegie Library at 202 East Sixth Street in Blooming...

Mothman Museum

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

The Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, stands as the world's only dedicated repository for one of America'...

National Aviary

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The land where the National Aviary now stands was once the site of Western State Penitentiary, built in 1826 and torn do...

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

New Orleans, Louisiana

The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum occupies a three-story brick building at 514 Chartres Street that once served as the pri...

Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum

Ocean City, Maryland

The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum occupies a striking white wooden building designed by architect J. L. Parkinso...

Old Bernardsville Public Library

Bernardsville, New Jersey

The Old Bernardsville Public Library, built in 1710 as the Vealtown Tavern, served as a vital stopping point for Contine...

Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon

Charleston, South Carolina

The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at 122 East Bay Street is one of the most historically significant buildings in Cha...

Old Fort Harrod State Park

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Old Fort Harrod State Park in Harrodsburg preserves the site of the first permanent English settlement west of the Alleg...

Old Orange County Courthouse

Santa Ana, California

The Old Orange County Courthouse, built in 1901 at 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd, is Orange County's oldest remaining courthouse...

Old South Meeting House

Boston, Massachusetts

The Old South Meeting House was built in 1729 as a Puritan house of worship, rising to become the largest building in co...

Old State Capitol Building

Frankfort, Kentucky

Kentucky's Old State Capitol Building in downtown Frankfort, designed by architect Gideon Shryock and completed in 1830,...

Old State House

Hartford, Connecticut

Connecticut's Old State House stands on ground soaked in blood long before its first stone was laid. On May 26, 1647, Al...

Old State House Museum

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Old State House at 300 West Markham Street in Little Rock is the oldest surviving state capitol building west of the...

Old Ursuline Convent

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Old Ursuline Convent stands on Chartres Street in the French Quarter, the oldest surviving building in New Orleans a...

Patapsco Female Institute

Ellicott City, Maryland

The Patapsco Female Institute stands as one of Maryland's most haunted ruins, a grand Greek Revival structure atop Mount...

Peabody Essex Museum

Salem, Massachusetts

The Peabody Essex Museum traces its origins to 1799, when twenty-two Salem sea captains who had sailed beyond the Cape o...

Peshtigo Fire Museum

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

Visitors to the museum have heard ghostly voices, smelled phantom smoke when there is no fire, and seen apparitions of f...

Pilgrim Hall Museum

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth is the oldest continuously operating public museum in the United Stat...

Pry House Field Hospital Museum

Sharpsburg, Maryland

The Pry House stands as one of the most actively haunted sites on the Antietam battlefield, bearing witness to the blood...

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum

St. Augustine, Florida

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine occupies Castle Warden, an 1887 mansion built by William G. Warden,...

RMS Queen Mary

Long Beach, California

The RMS Queen Mary launched in 1934 and sailed as Cunard Line's flagship luxury liner from 1936 to 1967, making over 1,0...

Salem Witch Museum

Salem, Massachusetts

The Salem Witch Museum occupies one of the most significant sites in American history—a Gothic Revival church building o...

Saunders Memorial Museum

Berryville, Arkansas

Colonel Charles Burton "Buck" Saunders was born February 2, 1863, near Greenville, Texas, to Judge Levi B. Saunders and...

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum

Frederick, Maryland

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, one of the oldest surviving structures in Frederick, Maryland, has been home to the...

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

The Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, seven miles northeast of Harrodsburg, is the largest restored Shaker community in t...

Single Brothers House

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Single Brothers House in Old Salem was built in 1769 as a communal residence and workshop for the unmarried men of t...

Soldiers National Museum

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The National Homestead at Gettysburg opened in October 1866 as an orphanage for children of Civil War soldiers killed in...

Speed Art Museum

Louisville, Kentucky

The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky's oldest and largest art museum, was established in 1927 by Harriet Bishop Speed — known...

Star of India

San Diego, California

The Star of India, built in 1863 as the Euterpe, is the world's oldest active sailing ship and a floating museum at San...

Surratt House Museum

Clinton, Maryland

John and Mary Surratt built this ten-room farmhouse in 1852, operating it as a tavern, post office, and polling place. T...

Taft Museum of Art

Cincinnati, Ohio

The Taft Museum of Art is rumored to be one of the most haunted places in Cincinnati, with the spirits of Anna and Charl...

The Lyceum

Alexandria, Virginia

The Lyceum stands as one of Alexandria's most architecturally distinguished buildings—and one shaped by profound sufferi...

The Octagon House

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

The apparition of a young boy has been seen throughout the house, appearing in different rooms and vanishing when approa...

The Powder Magazine

Charleston, South Carolina

Completed in 1713, the Powder Magazine at 79 Cumberland Street is the oldest public building in the Carolinas and the la...

Thomas Clarke House

Princeton, New Jersey

The Thomas Clarke House was built in 1772 as the center of a 200-acre Quaker farm belonging to the Stony Brook Quaker Se...

Uppertown Firefighters Museum

Astoria, Oregon

The building that houses the Uppertown Firefighters Museum at 2968 Marine Drive in Astoria has served three distinct pur...

USS Constitution

Boston, Massachusetts

She has never lost a battle, never been captured, and never surrendered. But the sailors who serve aboard the USS Consti...

USS Hornet Museum

Alameda, California

The USS Hornet (CV-12) was laid down on August 3, 1942, and commissioned on November 29, 1943, becoming one of the most...

USS Lexington Museum

Corpus Christi, Texas

The USS Lexington, known as the "Blue Ghost," was commissioned in February 1943 and became one of the most decorated shi...

USS Yorktown

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

The USS Yorktown (CV-10) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in some of the most brutal naval engagements of...

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hartford, Connecticut

The Wadsworth Atheneum is America's oldest continuously operating public art museum, and within its Gothic Revival walls...

West Virginia Independence Hall

Wheeling, West Virginia

West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling is the birthplace of the state itself and one of the most haunted public bui...

Wheeler-Stallard House Museum

Aspen, Colorado

The Wheeler-Stallard House is a Queen Anne-style Victorian home built in 1887 by Jerome B. Wheeler, the same Macy's co-o...

Witch Dungeon Museum

Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch Dungeon Museum occupies a building steeped in layered history—a Stick Style chapel constructed in 1897 for the...

Ybor City Museum State Park

Tampa, Florida

The Ybor City Museum State Park, housed in the historic Ferlita Bakery, preserves the unique cultural heritage of what w...

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Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas

Pine Bluff, Arkansas

The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas occupies a 22,000-square-foot facility at 701 Main Street in downtown...

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Jacoby Arts Center

Alton, Illinois

The Jacoby Arts Center in Alton was first opened in 1883 as the Jacoby Brothers Furniture Store and Funeral Home. The se...

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Mountain Village 1890

Bull Shoals, Arkansas

Mountain Village 1890 sits on roughly two and a half acres within the city limits of Bull Shoals, Arkansas -- a reconstr...