AO Loves Halloween

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.