Do You Dare? 13 Haunted Houses From Horror Movies You Can Visit in Real Life

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) went homicidally bonkers within the Overlook Hotel and director Stanley Kubrick used Oregon’s Timberline Lodge for exterior shots (the hotel’s interior was actually a set built in a sound stage). Fans looking for a deeper dive can visit the Stanley Hotel in Estes, Colorado, where Stephen King (who wrote the novel upon which the film is based) and his wife once stayed – and became so creeped out that it inspired him to write The Shining.
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Fans of the cult classic will recognize the Oakley Court Hotel in Windsor, England as the castle of The Rocky Horror Picture Show‘s Dr. Frank N. Furter. The exterior of the hotel, which is located near Windsor Castle on the banks of the River Thames, has actually been featured in a few other horror movies, including And Now the Screaming Starts (1973), The Plague of Zombies (1966) and The Brides of Dracula (1960).
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Freddie Krueger sliced and diced his way through this seemingly quaint neo-colonial home in Springwood, Ohio, but don’t go looking for it there. Not only is there no Elm Street in Springwood, there’s no Springwood in Ohio, either; the setting of the 1984 horror hit is entirely fictional. The home, built in 1919, is actually located at 1428 N. Genesee Avenue in Los Angeles, just a half a block from Sunset Blvd. and walking distance to the famed Chateau Marmont.
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John Carpenter’s 1980 horror hit The Fog was filmed in northern California, just north of San Francisco, with the Point Reyes Lighthouse used for the lighthouse in the coastal town of Port Antonio (which doesn’t actually exist).
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Shot on a shoestring budget, George Romero’s 1968 fright-fest remains a trailblazer of the zombie genre, filmed far from Hollywood in Evans City, Pennsylvania. Much of the gory action in the film took place within the Evans City Cemetery, which has become something of a tourist attraction to horror movie fans.

When expectant mom Rosemary (Mia Farrow) moves into a posh Manhattan apartment building with her husband, she learns the horrifying truth: her creepy neighbours are all devil worshippers and her unborn child is the spawn of Satan. The exterior of the apartment – called the Bramford Building – was actually the Dakota, which would later become home to John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The Dakota was also the site of Lennon’s 1980 murder.

Goalie mask-wearing psycho Jason Voorhees began his umpteen-movie murder spree at Camp Crystal Lake, which is actually a New Jersey Boy Scout camp dubbed Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. The camp began receiving so many visits from Friday the 13th aficionados that it now hosts special horror-movie tours; tickets to visit the slasher-movie summer camp are in such high demand that they can only be obtained via a lottery.
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Released in 1979, The Amityville Horror recounted a purportedly true story of a young couple who move into their new home – not knowing that the house was the site of a gruesome mass murder one year earlier, leading to all manner of horrific hauntings. While filmmakers wanted to film at the actual home – located at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York – local authorities wouldn’t grant permission, so a similar home in Toms River, New Jersey was used in the film and made to look like the original. While the jury’s still out as to whether or not the house actually haunted, it’s become a local tourist attraction thanks to the popularity of the film and its numerous sequels and reboots.

In the 2001 sequel to Silence of the Lambs, escaped serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is being hunted by men hired by Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), the doc’s sole surviving victim. Verger, a wealthy pedophile, lives in a massive mansion, which is actually Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House now serves as a museum and was originally built in the late 1800s by George Vanderbilt. The estate is currently owned by Vanderbilt’s heirs and with more than 135,000 square feet of living space remains the largest privately-owned house in the US.

Homicidal doll Chucky made his first appearance in 1988’s Child’s Play, terrorizing his young owner and the kid’s mother within the confines of an apartment in Chicago’s Brewster Apartments (located at 2800 N. Pine Grove Avenue), which doubled for the building’s exterior. The 10-storey building dates to the late 1800s and is now certified as a Windy City landmark. Rumour has it that Charlie Chaplin once rented the penthouse during his brief time with a Chicago-based movie studio circa 1915, but there’s no evidence to support the story.
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Located about a half-hour outside New Orleans in Vacherie, Louisiana, Oak Alley Plantation was used for exterior shots of the family home of Brad Pitt’s character in Interview With the Vampire. The plantation has also been featured in TV soap opera Days of Our Lives, the 1998 film Primary Colors, the made-for-TV Lifetime movie Midnight Bayou and Beyonce’s “Deja Vu” music video.

Located in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Ettington Park Hotel was used for both interior and exterior filming for the 1963 thriller The Haunting of Hill House (which was recently rebooted as a Netflix series). The neo-gothic architecture lent a creepy sense of gloom to the film and fans of the film can book a stay there.

The Yaquina Head Light, once known as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse, is situated on the coast of Oregon near the mouth of the Yaquina River near Newport. The tallest lighthouse in the state, it was used as the Moesko Island Lighthouse in the 2002 horror hit The Ring. That wasn’t the lighthouse’s only screen appearance, having also been featured in the 1983 film Hysterical and an episode of the 1977 TV series The Nancy Drew Mysteries.
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