Places haunted Wants to Go

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.