Merchant’s House Museum
An unusually intact 1832 Manhattan family home preserving original Tredwell furnishings, domestic history, and decades of reported unexplained experiences.
Villisca Axe Murder House
A restored 1868 Iowa home interpreting the unsolved 1912 murders, community history, preservation, and reported paranormal experiences.
Lizzie Borden House
A restored Fall River home, museum, and inn interpreting the unsolved 1892 Borden murders, Gilded Age society, trial history, and reported hauntings.
Whaley House Museum
An 1857 brick house layered with family, civic, theater, and ghost-tour history in Old Town San Diego.
Ohio State Reformatory
A preserved former Ohio prison known for monumental architecture, correctional history, reported paranormal experiences, and its role in The Shawshank Redemption.
The Myrtles
An antebellum property where popular ghost lore must be read against the history of slavery and the people who lived there.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
A landmark prison museum interpreting the history and continuing consequences of American incarceration.
Winchester Mystery House
A famously unconventional San Jose mansion where architecture, biography, and afterlife legend overlap.
The Stanley Hotel
A grand 1909 mountain hotel whose architecture, folklore, and literary afterlife became inseparable.
St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum
A working lighthouse and maritime museum where coastal history shares the bill with after-dark storytelling.