Haunted Places Around the World
Haunted Places Around The World is a structured travel dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Place, Location, Built / Era. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 7, 2026
Included fields: Place, Location, Built / Era, Type, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
No reliable range or grouping can be calculated from the loaded rows without interpreting the source data.
Useful for
- Comparing Place, Location, and Built / Era across travel entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Place↕ | Location↕ | Built / Era↕ | Type↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tower of London | London, England | 1066 | Castle / fortress / prison | Nearly 1,000 years of executions, torture, and imprisonments — Anne Boleyn's ghost reportedly walks carrying her head, the Princes in the Tower vanished here, ravens must stay or the kingdom falls, England's most haunted building by far |
Aokigahara Forest | Mount Fuji, Japan | Ancient (volcanic formation) | Dense forest | The 'Sea of Trees' at the base of Mount Fuji, Japan's most notorious suicide location, so dense that compasses malfunction, eerily silent because the trees block all wind, ribbons mark paths so hikers can find their way out |
Eastern State Penitentiary | Philadelphia, USA | 1829 | Abandoned prison | Al Capone was imprisoned here and reportedly tormented by ghosts, solitary confinement was invented here, crumbling cellblocks look like a horror movie set, one of the most investigated paranormal sites in America |
Poveglia Island | Venice Lagoon, Italy | 421 AD (first settlement) | Abandoned island | Plague victims were dumped here by the thousands, later became an insane asylum with a supposedly mad doctor, the soil is reportedly 50% human ash, Italian government won't let tourists visit, the most haunted island on Earth |
Château de Brissac | Loire Valley, France | 11th century | Castle (still inhabited) | The tallest château in France is haunted by the 'Green Lady' — a woman murdered by her husband after catching her with a lover, guests report seeing her faceless ghost in the chapel tower, you can actually stay overnight |
Edinburgh Vaults | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1788 | Underground chambers | Sealed underground chambers beneath South Bridge where the city's poorest lived and died, body snatchers Burke and Hare operated nearby, ghost tours report cold spots and phantom touches, the literal underworld beneath Edinburgh |
Bhangarh Fort | Rajasthan, India | 1573 | Abandoned fortress city | India's most haunted place — the government legally prohibits entry after sunset, legend says a sorcerer cursed the entire city, roofless buildings because any roof collapses overnight, an entire abandoned city frozen in time |
Monte Cristo Homestead | Junee, New South Wales, Australia | 1885 | Victorian mansion | Australia's most haunted house — a maid fell from the balcony, a child was dropped down the stairs, a stable boy burned to death, the Crawley family's tragic history permeates every room, paranormal investigators flock here |
Hoia Baciu Forest | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Ancient | Forest with clearing | The 'Bermuda Triangle of Romania' — people enter and lose hours of memory, trees grow in bizarre twisted spirals, a perfect circular clearing where nothing will grow, UFO sightings since 1968, Transylvania's creepiest non-Dracula attraction |
Leap Castle | County Offaly, Ireland | 13th century | Castle | Built over a druid ceremonial site, the 'Bloody Chapel' where a priest murdered his brother during Mass, an oubliette filled with skeletons was discovered behind a wall, the Elemental — a hunched beast-ghost that smells of rotting flesh |
Island of the Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas) | Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico | 1950s (doll collecting began) | Small island / chinampa | Thousands of decaying dolls hanging from trees, placed by a hermit to appease the spirit of a drowned girl, the caretaker was later found drowned in the same spot, the dolls' eyes seem to follow you, Mexico's most disturbing tourist attraction |
Myrtles Plantation | St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA | 1796 | Antebellum plantation | Built on a Tunica burial ground, the ghost of Chloe — an enslaved woman who poisoned the family — appears in photographs, the haunted mirror traps the spirits of those who died in the house, America's most haunted home claim |
Highgate Cemetery | London, England | 1839 | Victorian cemetery | Gothic Victorian tombs overgrown with ivy create an impossibly atmospheric landscape, the Highgate Vampire panic of the 1970s drew actual vampire hunters, Karl Marx is buried here, the most beautiful and terrifying cemetery in the world |
Aradale Mental Hospital | Ararat, Victoria, Australia | 1867 | Abandoned psychiatric hospital | 13,000 patients died within its walls over 130 years, Australia's largest abandoned mental asylum, overnight ghost tours in pitch-black wards, lobotomies and electroshock treatments occurred here, the screaming is supposedly still audible |
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21) | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 1962 (school), 1975 (prison) | Former school converted to torture prison | Khmer Rouge converted a high school into a torture center where 17,000 people were imprisoned and only 12 survived, haunting mugshots of victims line the walls, one of the most disturbing places on Earth — not ghost-haunted but humanity-haunted |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Haunted Places Around the World organized?
The table starts in the source data's order. Community voting is enabled as a separate approval signal beside eligible rows; votes do not replace the source values.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 15 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
Can I download the complete dataset?
Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 15 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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