New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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New York, New York
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
Rye, England
This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Boston, Massachusetts
The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
France
Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Rochester, New York
The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.
Ponchatoula, Louisiana
One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.
Lynn, Massachusetts
At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.
New York, New York
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
Burlington, Vermont
Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.