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Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Columbus Ghost Tours

Columbus, OH

Columbus Ghost Tours is a locally owned Columbus, Ohio ghost-tour operator running walking tours of downtown Columbus and German Village, after-hours storytelling tours at the city's historic Green Lawn Cemetery, and paranormal-investigation events at partner venues including Thurber House, the Ringside Cafe, the Cultural Arts Center, and the Central Ohio Fire Museum.

$$ 12+ for the Creepy Columbus, German Village, and Civil War Ghosts of Green Lawn Cemetery tours; 18+ (car required) for Night at Green Lawn Cemetery; 21+ for Booze & Boos and the Ringside Cafe investigation, which visit bars serving alcohol Family: Moderate
Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

American Ghost Adventures Orlando

Orlando, FL

American Ghost Adventures (AGA) is a locally owned, Orlando-based paranormal tour company founded by lead investigator Ting Rappa, operating for more than 20 years as Central Florida's longest-running ghost tour agency. Its Orlando program runs eight distinct products through downtown Orlando, the Orange County Regional History Center, and Greenwood Cemetery.

$$ Varies by product; most investigations are family-friendly (parental discretion advised), the True Crimes Investigation is recommended for ages 10+, and the Haunted Pub Crawl is 21+. Family: Moderate
The RMS Queen Mary ocean liner permanently moored at Long Beach, California, its three red funnels and black hull visible from the harbor
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Queen Mary

Long Beach, CA

The RMS Queen Mary was constructed at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard beginning in 1930, launched September 26, 1934, and sailed her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936. Requisitioned as a troopship in 1939, she carried 810,000 soldiers under the nickname 'The Grey Ghost.' The ship has been permanently moored in Long Beach, California since December 1967.

$$ All Ages (Paranormal Ship Walk 13+; Graveyard Tour 16+) Family: Moderate
Fort Sumter in Charleston — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Nightly Spirits Charleston

Charleston, SC

Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running public and private programs in about 20 U.S. cities, including a Historic Downtown Charleston route with a kid-friendly pirate-themed option. The company has been recognized as a top-rated U.S. ghost tour by USA Today in multiple years.

$$ 21+ for the Booze and Boos Tour; All Ages for the Swashbuckling Spooktacular Ghost Walk; 18+ for the Nightmares and Nightcaps Tour; 9+ for school field trips Family: Moderate
Gothic five-story facade of Waverly Hills Sanatorium on a Louisville Kentucky ridgeline at dusk
Asylum / Hospital

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, KY

Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 on a Jefferson County ridgeline as a tuberculosis treatment facility for Louisville's epidemic-affected population. The current five-story Gothic building, capable of housing more than 400 patients, was completed in 1926. The facility closed in 1961 following streptomycin's introduction, operated briefly as a geriatric center until 1980, and has been a paranormal attraction since 2001.

$$ Historical tours: all ages. Paranormal tours and investigations: varies by event — check site. Family: Not Recommended
Denver Union Station in Denver — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Nightly Spirits Denver

Denver, CO

Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running a Denver program centered on LoDo, meeting at Celtic on Market and covering Denver Union Station and the Oxford Hotel; a second South Broadway route is currently private-booking-only.

$$ 21+ for the Denver Booze & Boos Tour (LoDo); All Ages for the Denver Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk Family: Moderate

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Eagle Mountain House, the 1916 Colonial Revival resort hotel in Jackson, New Hampshire
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Eagle Mountain House & Golf Club

Jackson, NH

Cyrus and Marcia Gale opened their Eagle Mountain Farm as a guest house in 1849, expanding it by the 1890s into Eagle Hall and Eagle Mountain House, lodging for 125 guests. Fire destroyed both buildings in May 1915. The Gales' son, Arthur Pinkham Gale, opened the current Colonial Revival hotel on July 4, 1916, later adding an elevator, a 1928-29 expansion, and a nine-hole golf course on the former pasture in 1931.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Weathered headstones at Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Burlington, Connecticut
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery

Burlington, CT

Roughly twenty Seventh Day Baptist families from Rhode Island founded this Burlington church and cemetery in 1780, deeding the burial ground in 1796. The congregation left for New York by 1820, but the cemetery stayed behind, and it has needed protection from vandalism ever since.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Cresco Opera House exterior, Howard County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places
Theater / Performance Venue

Cresco Theatre and Opera House

Cresco, IA

Cresco's Commercial Club raised the money to replace a deteriorating hall with this Prairie School opera house, which opened debt-free in February 1915 with a touring musical revue and 725 seats. It has run continuously since, under six different owners, before the city took it over in 1978.

$ All Ages Family: High
Brown Grand Theatre exterior in Concordia, Kansas
Theater / Performance Venue

Brown Grand Theatre

Concordia, KS

Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, a Concordia banker, broke ground on the theater in April 1906 and hired Kansas City architect Carl Boller to design it. His son, Earl Van Dorn Brown, supervised construction after touring more than thirty opera houses for ideas. The theater opened September 17, 1907. Brown died in 1910; Earl died about four months later. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the building was restored to its original appearance and reopened in 1980.

$$ Minimum 13 Family: High
Photo of Fort William Henry (Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site)
Battlefield / Military Site

Fort William Henry (Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site)

Bristol, ME

English fishermen set up stations at Pemaquid in the early 1610s, and by the 1670s it was one of the earliest and most significant English settlements on the Maine coast. A succession of three forts defended and lost it: Fort Charles fell in 1689, the much larger Fort William Henry fell in 1696 after Captain Pasco Chubb broke a truce and had Wabanaki leaders killed, and Fort Frederick was demolished by local vote in 1775.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Mississippi Coast Coliseum exterior in Biloxi
Theater / Performance Venue

Mississippi Coast Coliseum

Biloxi, MS

The Mississippi Coast Coliseum broke ground in 1975 and opened in 1977 with a Charley Pride concert, built to seat 11,500 for reserved events and up to 15,000 festival-style. It has hosted WCW wrestling, Sun Belt and Metro Conference basketball tournaments, and a Larry Holmes boxing match, and sustained major flood and wind damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 before reopening in 2007. Coliseum staff say the land held an orphanage before the arena was built, and that the property was previously part of the adjacent Beauvoir estate, Jefferson Davis's postwar home, which sits directly across the street.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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