Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In
Book a room, meet a resident — the atlas's collection of haunted hotels, inns and mansions that take reservations.
Menger Hotel
B · San Antonio, TX, United States — San Antonio, next door to the Alamo: Teddy Roosevelt recruited Rough Riders in the bar; staff still report Sallie White, a chambermaid killed in 1876.…
1886 Crescent Hotel
A · Eureka Springs, AR, United States — Eureka Springs' 1886 hotel, later a fake cancer hospital run by 'Dr.' Norman Baker — the morgue is now a tour stop.…
Hotel Galvez
B · Galveston, TX, United States — Galveston's 1911 queen: a ghost bride on the fifth floor and hurricane-era guests who never checked out.…
Lemp Mansion
A · St. Louis, MO, United States — St. Louis' brewing dynasty undone by four suicides — the mansion is now an inn with a child spirit said to play pranks.…
Hotel Monte Vista
B · Flagstaff, AZ, United States — Flagstaff, 1927, on Route 66: a bank robber in Room 210 and the long-term resident known as 'Meat Man'.…
The Ancient Ram Inn
A · Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom — A 12th-century coaching inn claimed to sit on a pagan burial ground — alleged child sacrifices, a witch, and a portal.…
The Diplomat Hotel — Baguio's Dark Chapel
B · Baguio, Benguet, Philippines — A mountaintop seminary turned WWII execution ground turned derelict hotel — the Philippines' most photographed ruin.…
Banff Springs Hotel — The Castle in the Rockies
B · Banff, Alberta, Canada — A Scottish-baronial railway castle in the Rockies with a doomed bride, a bellhop who never checked out, and a sealed room.…
Hotel Chelsea — New York's Bohemian Ghost Hotel
A · New York City, New York, United States — The hotel where Dylan Thomas fell ill, Sid Vicious's Nancy died, and a century of artists left presences behind.…
Woodchester Mansion
B · Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom — A Victorian Gothic mansion abandoned mid-construction in 1873 — complete outside, hollow inside, with ladders still propped against walls that never received their floors.…
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
B · Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom — A Welsh mountain inn claiming to be the oldest pub in the country — and, by legend, a courtroom whose stair beam hanged as many as 180 condemned men.…
Hotel del Salto
A · San Antonio del Tequendama, Cundinamarca, Colombia — A French-style mansion on the cliff above Tequendama Falls, once Bogotá's grand tourist hotel — abandoned for decades above a suicide cliff, now a museum that keeps its ghost stori…
Qiu Family Mansion — The House That Swallows Its Residents
B · Weihai Road, Shanghai, China — A colonial-era mansion on Weihai Road, long sealed and empty amid downtown Shanghai, and the city's most retold haunted-house legend.…
Nottingham Road Hotel — Charlotte of Room 10
B · KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa — A coaching-inn-era country hotel in the KZN Midlands where the ghost of 'Charlotte' tidies rooms, rearranges flowers — and pulls sleepers' toes.…
Lord Milner Hotel — The Ghosts of Matjiesfontein
B · Matjiesfontein, South Africa — A perfectly preserved Victorian railway village in the Karoo — 'the most haunted town in South Africa' — whose grand old hotel hosts Lucy, Kate and a lady in white.…
The Cecil Hotel — Main Street's Dark Address
A · Los Angeles, California, United States — A 1927 downtown hotel whose guest ledger reads like a true-crime anthology — the 'Suicide Hotel' where Elisa Lam's body was found in a rooftop water tank in 2013.…
Hotel del Coronado — The Beautiful Stranger
A · Coronado, California, United States — The giant red Victorian on the San Diego sand — the world's best-documented hotel ghost story, starring a 24-year-old stranger who checked in in 1892 and never checked out.…
The Driskill — The Cattle King's Hotel
B · Austin, Texas, United States — Austin's 1886 Romanesque landmark, built by a cattle baron who lost it within two years — and who, guests still say, never moved out.…
Hotel Edén — The Belle Époque That Waited for Hitler
B · La Falda, Córdoba, Argentina — A vast 1897 mountain resort in the Córdoba sierras — Einstein slept there, Nazi owners sent Hitler telegrams, and the hotel has stood dead since 1963, Argentina's most famous haunt…
Keg Mansion — The Maid in the Mirror
B · Toronto, Ontario, Canada — A Victorian industrialist's mansion on Jarvis Street — now a steakhouse — where the women's washroom mirror is said to show a hanging maid, a grief legend attached to one of Toront…
The Mermaid Inn — Rye's Smugglers' Stronghold
A · Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom — Cellars from 1156, a rebuilding of 1420, secret passages and a rocking chair that moves on its own — England's most famous medieval inn, run today as a hotel that rents its ghosts …
Fort Garry Hotel — Room 202's Waiting Bride
A · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — Winnipeg's 1913 railway château and National Historic Site, whose own official literature concedes “it is said that the Fort Garry is haunted” — most famously by a bride who died i…
Rokudō Chinno-ji — The Well to Enma's Court
A · Kyoto, Japan — The small Rinzai temple at Rokudō-no-Tsuji — the crossroads where Heian Kyoto met its burial ground — where a courtier is said to have descended nightly by well to serve as secreta…
Independence Hotel — Sihanoukville's White Sentinel
B · Sihanoukville, Cambodia — The seven-storey modernist hotel that was Cambodia's tallest building when it opened in 1964 — host to Jacqueline Kennedy and Catherine Deneuve, later a Khmer Rouge base and a UNTA…
Mount Lavinia Hotel — Lady Lavinia's Tunnel
B · Mount Lavinia, Colombo, Sri Lanka — The 1806 governor's residence on the Colombo coast where, by the hotel's own history, Governor Maitland smuggled his dancer-lover through a tunnel from her garden to his wine cella…
Hotel Humboldt — The Dictator's Empty Hotel
B · Caracas (Cerro El Ávila), Venezuela — The modernist mountain hotel at 2,250 metres above Caracas, built by dictator Pérez Jiménez in 1956, abandoned for decades after his fall — during which a lone watchman swore to th…
The Vanishing House of Resneliler — Ankara's Ghost Mansion
B · Kavaklidere / Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey — A derelict mansion on a lane in central Ankara that made national news in 2021 when residents reported a house that appears and disappears, screams from its empty rooms, and figure…
Hotel Castañeda — Fred Harvey's Haunted Queen
B · Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States — The oldest surviving Fred Harvey hotel in the West, built by the railroad in 1898 beside the tracks in Las Vegas, New Mexico — restored in the 2010s with its ghost file intact: a c…
Skirvin Hotel — The Ninth Floor and the NBA
A · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States — Oklahoma City's 1911 flagship hotel, closed for nineteen years and reborn in 2007 next to the NBA arena — whose visiting teams credit the ghost of a chambermaid with sleepless nigh…
Civil War Exchange Hotel — Gordonsville's Hospital Ghosts
B · Gordonsville, Virginia, United States — An 1860 railroad hotel that became one of the Civil War's largest receiving hospitals — processing thousands of wounded — now a museum whose ghost reports track its hospital years,…
Summerwind — The Mansion That Would Not Stay Furnished
A · Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, United States — A 1920s lakeside mansion in the North Woods, twice abandoned and burned by lightning in 1988 — the most famous 'haunted house' in Wisconsin, whose canon is a 1979 book by the famil…
Nagel-Schwartz Mansion — Cheyenne's Cattle-Boom House
B · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States — An 1889 red-sandstone cattle-baron mansion in Cheyenne, kept as a house museum with a ghost file — footsteps on the stairs, a woman at an upper window, and the smell of cigars — co…
Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie — The 1911 Poisoning
A · Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India — A 1902 hill-station hotel in the Himalayan foothills, still taking guests, keeps India's best-documented hotel death file: the 1911 strychnine poisoning of a missionary in her room…
Hotel del Lago — The Room of the Suicide
A · San Bernardino, Cordillera, Paraguay — Paraguay's grandest lakeside hotel, opened 1888 on the Ypacaraí at the German-colony summer resort of San Bernardino — where Bernhard Förster, Nietzsche's brother-in-law and the ru…
Petra — The Djinn Blocks at the Siq
B · Wadi Musa, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan — The first monuments of Petra — three squat, tower-like tombs cut from the living rock just before the Siq, worn faceless by two thousand years and named by the Bedouin for what the…
Nakagusuku Hotel — The Hotel the Dead Refused
B · Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan — The concrete skeleton that stood fifty metres from the walls of Nakagusuku Castle for forty-five years — a 1970s luxury resort begun against the warnings of monks that the hill was…
Hotel Monteleone — The Carousel and the Thirteenth Floor
B · French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States — The grand family hotel of the French Quarter, opened in 1886 by a Sicilian shoemaker's son and still run by his descendants — home of the revolving Carousel Bar where Faulkner, Hem…
17Hundred90 — Anna's Room
B · Savannah, Georgia, United States — An inn among Savannah's oldest buildings — its name is its birth-year — where the resident ghost has a street address: room 204. Anna, by the telling a servant of the household aba…
The Drake — Opening Night's Woman in Red
B · Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States — The pink-neoned 1920 grand hotel at the top of Michigan Avenue — haunted from its first night: a woman in a red dress who, at the New Year's Eve opening gala, found her fiancé with…
Hotel New Naruto — The Palace on the Skyline
B · Naruto, Tokushima, Japan — A hotel, drive-in and souvenir complex built at the top of the Naruto Skyline road to serve the whirlpool-view traffic of Shikoku's boom years stood derelict above the straits for …
The Russell Hotel, The Rocks — The Sailor of Room 8
B · 143-143A George Street, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia — Sydney's most haunted hotel: an 1887 harbour-side building in The Rocks where, by the district's own official telling, a sailor was murdered in Room 8 by a woman he had brought ups…
Newgrange — The 5,000-Year Winter Solstice Machine
A · Brú na Bóinne, County Meath, Ireland — Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge: the great passage tomb of the Boyne valley, built around 3200 BC, its 19-metre passage aligned so precisely that for a few mornings around e…
The Langham — Room 333 and the Seven Residents
B · 1C Portland Place, Marylebone, London, England — London's self-declared most haunted grand hotel: opened in 1865 as among England's first purpose-built luxury hotels, the Langham carries a resident canon of seven-plus — headlined…
Grand Hotel, Mackinac — The Somewhere in Time Hotel
B · Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States — The world's largest summer hotel and the island the cars never reached: Mackinac's Grand Hotel — the 1887 white veranda palace of the Michigan trade — is better documented for its …