Halloween is slowly approaching, and you know what that means: time to scope out the spookiest places you can find. Outside of the more traditional haunted houses, there are plenty of other buildings and well-known landmarks that hold a certain degree of creepiness all around the country. Here are the top seven spookiest places across America.
While California may not seem like an unsettling place, it is home to one true ghost town. Bodie, California was originally a mining town in the late 1800’s. Most of what has been left standing looks to be in “arrested decay,” making it one of the spookiest places to gander. This area is currently maintained by the California State Parks System, and they began to hold a watchful eye over the town back in 1962, turning …show more content…
Located near 3600 Prospect Street NW, this is a perfect place to take a stroll in the middle of the night after having watched the film. But that's only if you scare easily.This 101-acre island may be an undiscovered mystery to some New Yorkers. Hart Island at one time served as a Nike missile base, while also welcome criminals, psychiatric inmates and other disturbing, law-breaking ruffians. This is also where you will find the country's largest cemetery, currently a large burial site for dead bodies that are unclaimed and unidentified in New York City, with the burials all being handled by inmates volunteering from Riker's Island.Edgar Allen Poe can certainly be viewed as a creepy person, one of the first practitioners of poetry in America. Well, his grave site is for sure one of the spookiest places you can encounter in America. If you plan to visit this gothic revival church, you can even check out the subterranean passageways below the building.Creepiness can often be attributed to anything that looks gothic in its aesthetic style, and the West Virginia State Penitentiary is no exception to this rule. The
While California may not seem like an unsettling place, it is home to one true ghost town. Bodie, California was originally a mining town in the late 1800’s. Most of what has been left standing looks to be in “arrested decay,” making it one of the spookiest places to gander. This area is currently maintained by the California State Parks System, and they began to hold a watchful eye over the town back in 1962, turning …show more content…
Located near 3600 Prospect Street NW, this is a perfect place to take a stroll in the middle of the night after having watched the film. But that's only if you scare easily.This 101-acre island may be an undiscovered mystery to some New Yorkers. Hart Island at one time served as a Nike missile base, while also welcome criminals, psychiatric inmates and other disturbing, law-breaking ruffians. This is also where you will find the country's largest cemetery, currently a large burial site for dead bodies that are unclaimed and unidentified in New York City, with the burials all being handled by inmates volunteering from Riker's Island.Edgar Allen Poe can certainly be viewed as a creepy person, one of the first practitioners of poetry in America. Well, his grave site is for sure one of the spookiest places you can encounter in America. If you plan to visit this gothic revival church, you can even check out the subterranean passageways below the building.Creepiness can often be attributed to anything that looks gothic in its aesthetic style, and the West Virginia State Penitentiary is no exception to this rule. The