A Horror Buff's Great American Roadtrip

30 real world locations from scary movies.

by Meg Neal, Places Editor

29 Places

From haunting old mills in Maine to opulent mansions in California, these 30 creepy places are must-see stops on a horror film lover’s tour of America.

Still from the movie

Morristown, Tennessee

The Evil Dead Cabin

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

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Added by Joey Freshwater

The stairs at night

Washington, D.C.

The Exorcist Stairs

Site of the climactic scene from The Exorcist.

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Added by Leslie McIntyre

Hotel Vertigo

San Francisco, California

Hotel Vertigo

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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Added by daneder

Halloween House

Los Angeles, California

Halloween House

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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Added by mark hayward

Bridge and quay used in the shark attack scene.

Edgartown, Massachusetts

Jaws Bridge

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's "Jaws."

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Added by JWOcker

112 Ocean Avenue in 1973.

Amityville, New York

Amityville Horror House

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

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Added by EricGrundhauser

Waxahachie, Texas

Munster Mansion

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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Added by Clinton

City Methodist Church

City Methodist Church

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

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Added by violetwanderlust

Greystone's gardens

Beverly Hills, California

Greystone Mansion

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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Added by Rachel

Nancy Thompson's House from A Nightmare on Elm Street

Los Angeles, California

Thompson Home

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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Added by mark hayward

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

Los Angeles, California

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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Added by mark hayward

Ennis House from House on Haunted Hill

Los Angeles, California

Ennis House

This weird abode has been everything from the House On Haunted Hill to a robot hunter's pad.

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Added by mark hayward

The Colonial Theatre

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Colonial Theatre

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

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Added by Jane Weinhardt Goldberg

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Friday the 13th

Hardwick, New Jersey

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco

This Boy Scout retreat acted as Friday the 13th's original Camp Crystal Lake.

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Added by EricGrundhauser

Hollywood Tower Apartments inspired, Tower of Terror

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Tower Apartments

The real life tower of terror is this Los Angeles apartment tower.

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Added by mark hayward

Rosenheim Mansion

Los Angeles, California

Rosenheim Mansion

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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Added by mark hayward

Downtown New Preston, CT, where the movie starts.

Washington, Connecticut

Jason's Haunts

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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Added by JWOcker

Crane Estate on Castle Hill in Ipswich, MA

Cohasset, Massachusetts

"The Witches of Eastwick" Filming Sites

New England's "Witches of east wick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

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Added by JWOcker

Spot where they erected the cover bridge for the Maitlands's death scene.

Corinth, Vermont

East Corinth

The quaint little town in Vermont where Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" was filmed.

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Added by JWOcker

Bartlettyarns Mill

Bartlettyarns Mill

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

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Added by JWOcker

Sign across the street from the house

Pet Sematary Filming Sites

The house and graveyard used in the horror movie "Pet Sematary."

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Added by JWOcker

House from the 1971 movie "Let's Scare Jessica to Death"

Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Old Bishop House

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

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Added by JWOcker

Gryphon sculpture by Paul Manship

Ipswich, Massachusetts

Crane Mansion on Castle Hill

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

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Added by JWOcker

"Atomic" cameramen photographing atomic bomb test

Los Angeles, California

Lookout Mountain Airforce Station

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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Outside the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.

Estes Park, Colorado

The Stanley Hotel

Paranormal experiences in room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

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Added by Nicholas Jackson

Oakland, California

Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

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Added by TrevorShawnElia

The Bradbury Building

Los Angeles, California

Bradbury Building

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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Added by Rachel

Figure of Tor Johnson, from Plan 9 From Outer Space

Evans City, Pennsylvania

The Living Dead Museum

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

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Added by thomasharper

The house with a hedge around it

Stephen King's House

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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Added by JWOcker

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