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Bhangarh Fort
The ruins of a 17th-century city in India, officially named by the Archaeological Survey of India as the country's most haunted site — visitors are barred after sunset.
Island of the Dolls
An islet in the Xochimilco canals near Mexico City, hung with salvaged dolls for half a century. Its caretaker said he hung them to appease the spirit of a drowned girl; after his death in 2001 it became a tourist pilgrimage.
Highgate Cemetery
An overgrown Victorian cemetery in north London with gothic vaults and an Egyptian Avenue. In the early 1970s a newspaper frenzy about a "Highgate Vampire" drew crowds of hunters to its gates.
Akershus Fortress
A medieval fortress and prison on the Oslo fjord, never taken by siege. Its dungeons gave rise to Norwegian legends of the dog Malcanisen and a faceless woman said to guard the cellars.
Greyfriars Kirkyard
An old graveyard in central Edinburgh with the "Covenanters' Prison" at its far end. Since 1999 visitors have reported unexplained cuts and bruises — the phenomenon nicknamed the Mackenzie Poltergeist.
The Ancient Ram Inn
A 12th-century house in Gloucestershire, said to stand on crossing ley lines and a pagan site. Reputed one of Britain's grimmest buildings — its owners avoided sleeping on the upper floor for decades.
The Stanley Hotel
A hotel in the Colorado Rockies where Stephen King spent a night in room 217 and conceived The Shining. Staff and guests have reported piano notes and children's footsteps in empty corridors for decades.
The Myrtles Plantation
A Louisiana estate billed as one of America's most haunted houses. Its best-known story is of an enslaved woman, Chloe, in a green turban — undocumented, but persistent for well over a century.
Château de Brissac
The tallest château in France, seven storeys in the Loire valley. It carries the legend of the "Green Lady" — Charlotte de Brézé, killed in the 15th century, whose moaning is said to be heard in the tower at dawn.
Tower of London
A medieval fortress on the Thames with nearly a thousand years of executions and imprisonments. Legend holds that the ghosts of Anne Boleyn and other prisoners still walk its grounds.
Poveglia Island
An island in the Venetian Lagoon that served for centuries as a plague quarantine station and later a psychiatric hospital. Today it's abandoned and closed to casual visitors.
Winchester Mystery House
A sprawling Victorian mansion in California, continuously expanded for decades on the belief — held by its owner, Sarah Winchester — that construction kept the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles at bay. Staircases lead to ceilings; doors open onto walls.