Audubon House and Tropical Gardens
The Audubon House & Tropical Gardens has brick-pathed gardens that offer a lush 1-acre view of orchids, bromeliads, and other tropical foliage, an herb garden and 1840-style nursery.
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54 Haunted locations in Museums
Because museums house historical artifacts and objects that may hold strong emotional energy from their previous owners (including their remains), it is commonly believed that spirits can become attached to these items and thus the locations where they are kept and placed on display. This is especially true if the items are associated with tragic or significant events, making the museums potential hotspots for hauntings. These hauntings can manifest in various ways, such as unexplained sounds, sudden temperature drops, or even sightings of apparitions. Consequently, many museums have adopted ghost tours and paranormal investigations to explore these intriguing phenomena, attracting visitors curious about the supernatural.
Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History
The Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History is housed within a four-story brick building that is an interesting part of Parkersburg's colorful past.
Carillon Historical Park
Carillon Historical Park is a 65-acre open-air history museum that serves as the main campus for Dayton History. They share the wonderful stories of how Dayton changed the world!
Cawley and Peoples Mortuary Museum
Private museum with a collection of horse-drawn and motorized hearses, plus other funeral artifacts.
Chicago History Museum
Chicago History Museum (formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society (CHS)) was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history.The CHS adopted the name, Chicago History Museum, in September 2006 for its public presence.
Cleveland Grays Armory Museum
Grays Armory is an historic building in Cleveland, Ohio. It was built by the Cleveland Grays, a private military company which was founded in 1837.This is one of the oldest standing buildings in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland Police Museum
The Cleveland Police Museum traces its origins to a growing desire in the early 1980s to preserve the history of law enforcement in one of Ohio's most influential cities.
Colorado House - Wells Fargo
The Colorado House was a hotel constructed and operated by Cave Johnson Couts, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Dragoons.
Custom House
The Custom House is located on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It is part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, which was the very first historic site maintained by the National Park System.
Dallas Holocaust Museum
Founded in 1984, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust.
First San Diego Courthouse Museum
Originally designed as a town hall, the 16'x27' brick building stood on the corner of the plaza facing San Diego Avenue.
Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum
A museum dedicated to fostering an understanding of the crucial role Gettysburg and Adams County have played in shaping our country’s history.
Gettysburg Heritage Center
The Gettysburg Heritage Center is operated by the nonprofit Gettysburg Nature Alliance, which educates about and preserves both our heritage and our habitat.
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center
The Gettysburg National Battlefield Visitor Center has served as a gateway for millions seeking to understand the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to 3, 1863
Greenfield Village
Experience firsthand the sights, sounds and sensations of America’s fascinating formation, where over 80 acres brim with resourcefulness and ingenuity. Here, 300 years of American perseverance serve as a living reminder that anything is possible.
Harpers Ferry Civil War Museum
Located next to the famous appliational trail stone steps leading up to the St. Peter Church and now serves as the Civil War Museum for the Harpers Ferry National Park.
Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
Hugh Mercer Apothecary was founded by Hugh Mercer in the mid-18th century. Mercer was a doctor who fled Scotland after the Battle of Culloden.
John Brown Wax Museum
The John Brown Wax Museum is three story brick building originally owned by Alexander Kelly for a family home with his wife Ellen and five children.
Key West Shipwreck Museum
The Key West Shipwreck Museum is located in Key West, Florida, United States. It combines actors, films and actual artifacts to tell the story of 400 years of shipwreck salvage in the Florida Keys
Lightner Museum
The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiques, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine.
Loveland Castle - Chauteau Laroche
Chauteau Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio
Lucy and Desi Museum
Celebrating the lives, careers, and legacies of the "First Couple of Comedy" and their incredible impact on the world.
Lucy Childhood Home
Lucille Ball's childhood home, originally 59 Eighth St. in Celoron, New York, belonged to her grandparents, Fred and Flora Belle Hunt, where they lived with Lucy's mother, Desiree "DeDe" Ball, and her younger brother Freddy.
Madame Tussauds Hollywood
Madame Tussauds Hollywood is a wax museum and tourist attraction located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Mansfield Fire Museum
A museum with historical fire equipment.
Mansfield Women's Club
Remaining as one of Mansfield, Ohio's largest and oldest homes, the estate of Mr & Mrs. Henry C. Hedges, is known for its near original 1800's interior and stunning Victorian charm.
Marietta Soda Museum
This location was built in 1900 and was formally known as the Maple Cafe.
Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum
The Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum, is a historic site. This is the current home of Robert the Doll.
Mormon Battalion Historic Site
The Mormon Battalion Historic Site in San Diego is a visitors center that commemorates the Mormon Battalion's historic journey from the Council Bluffs area of Iowa to San Diego, California.
Mothman Museum
THIS LOCATION IS NOT HAUNTED, but is a museum devoted to the Mothman, a local legend, featuring press clippings, documents & memorabilia.
Museum of Science and Industry
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Museum of Shadows
Museum Of Shadows is located in a three-story building, just recently voted one of the most haunted museums in the world! The museum houses over 1000 verified haunted artifacts, donated from not only across the United States but multiple countries.
Mutter Museum
The Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia began as a donation from American surgeon Thomas Dent Mutter, MD (1811-1859), who was determined to improve and reform medical education.
National Aviary
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country's largest aviary, and the only one accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is a U.S. historic education institution located in Frederick, Maryland. Its focus involves the medical, surgical and nursing practices during the American Civil War.
National Museum of Health and Medicine
The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011.
National Museum of the United States Air Force
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum.
Old Mill Museum Dundee
The Old Mill Museum is Dundee's only venue to showcase its local history. Lovingly restored during the 1980's by a group of volunteers known as the Old Mill Restoration Committee.
Old Washoe Club
The former home to the Millionaire's Club. The building was built in 1862.
Powel House
Powel House is a historic mansion/museum located at 244 South 3rd Street between Willings Alley and Spruce Street in the Society Hill neighborhood.
Promont House Museum
Promont House in Milford, Ohio, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980. It is an Italianate Victorian structure, built in 1865 by William Megrue, and purchased in 1879 by John Pattison, who became the 43rd governor of Ohio.
Senator John Heinz History Center
The Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the largest history museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. Named after U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III from Pennsylvania.
Shriver House Museum
Meticulously restored to its 1860s appearance, step back in time to visualize what life was like in mid-19th century, south-central Pennsylvania.
Spanish Military Hospital
The Spanish Military Hospital Museum building is a reconstruction of a Military Hospital that stood on this site during the Second Spanish Colonial Period, 1784-1821.
The American Civil War Museum - Appomattox
The American Civil War Museum - Appomattox's permanent exhibit explores these overlapping stories using more than 400 artifacts, photographs, and documents.
The Henry Fearing House Museum
Built in 1847, the home exemplifies the lifestyles of middle-class Marietta during the Victorian Era.
The Henry Ford Museum
Henry Ford decided on October 21, 1929, as the dedication date for his new museum and village - marking the fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Edison's first successful experiment with a suitable approach to manufacturing an incandescent lamp.
The John and Annie Glenn Museum
The house where John Glenn grew up, which is now the John and Annie Glenn Museum.
The Lorraine Motel a.k.a. National Civil Rights Museum
The Lorraine Motel is one of the most infamous locations in Memphis, because it was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
The Old Red Museum of Dallas County
Built in 1892, the beautifully restored Old Red Courthouse contains some of Dallas County's most fascinating historical artifacts.
The Poe Museum
The Poe Museum, or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
The Victorian House Museum
The Victorian house was completed in 1902 by L.H. Brightman A Cleveland Ohio industrialist for his wife Elizabeth and eight of their twelve children.
Thomas Gilcrease Museum
Gilcrease Museum was founded in 1949 as a private museum by Tulsa oilman Thomas Gilcrease (1890-1962), who amassed the nation's most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as major collections of historical documents and artifacts.
Tyler History Center
Mini-museum featuring exhibits and programs dedicated to the history of Youngstown. This building was the former Good Humor factory building.