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.

Morristown, Tennessee

The Evil Dead Cabin

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

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Washington, D.C.

The Exorcist Stairs

Site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film.

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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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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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Edgartown, Massachusetts

Jaws Bridge

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

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Amityville, New York

Amityville Horror House

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

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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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City Methodist Church

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

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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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Los Angeles, California

Thompson Home

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

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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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Los Angeles, California

Ennis House

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

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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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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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Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Tower Apartments

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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Los Angeles, California

Rosenheim Mansion

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

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Washington, Connecticut

Jason's Haunts

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

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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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Corinth, Vermont

East Corinth

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

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Bartlettyarns Mill

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

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Pet Sematary Filming Sites

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

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Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Old Bishop House

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

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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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Los Angeles, California

Lookout Mountain Airforce Station

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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Estes Park, Colorado

The Stanley Hotel

Paranormal experiences in room 237 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

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Oakland, California

Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

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Los Angeles, California

Bradbury Building

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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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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Stephen King's House

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

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