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Inn
Lizzie Borden House
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death inside this house in Fall River, Massachusetts. It's a bed and breakfast now, and its guides have long said the room where Abby died is the one guests ask for most.
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House
Andrew Low House
Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts, lived in this house during the Scouts' early years, the museum says. Travel writer Alexandra Nicole Nolan passes on the Savannah lore of an older woman seen resting on a bed inside, whom some believe to be Juliette.
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House
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
Genteel & Bard, a Savannah ghost tour company, says many guests have seen a man in early Victorian clothes standing in the front parlor of this 1819 house. The company takes him to be George Welshman Owens, the attorney who bought the house in 1830.
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House
Mercer Williams House
Jim Williams shot Danny Hansford in this house's study in 1981, the killing at the heart of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Williams died in the same study eight months after his acquittal, and Savannah Magazine writes that "some claim he was cursed."
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House
Sorrel-Weed House
Shipping merchant Francis Sorrel finished this house in 1840. Visit Savannah, the city's tourism bureau, says guests report cold spots, shadowy figures, and voices, especially in the basement and the old slave quarters.
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Museum
Destrehan Plantation
Established in 1787, Destrehan is the oldest documented plantation in the lower Mississippi Valley. Executive director Tracy Smith says she was skeptical of the ghost stories at first, but "I guess you could say I'm a believer at this point."
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Museum
Old U.S. Mint
Louisiana seized the U.S. Mint in January 1861, and the Confederacy minted some coins here. Jimmie Jackson, who guarded the building for the Louisiana State Museum, said its spirits visited him for years.
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Museum
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
Louis Dufilho Jr., whom the museum calls America's first licensed pharmacist, had this shop built in 1822 and 1823. The stories make its ghost Dr. James Dupas, whose family bought it in 1855: a short man in a brown suit who throws books.
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Church
Old Ursuline Convent
The Ursuline nuns finished this convent in 1752. Legend has it the shutters on its third floor were nailed shut to keep in vampires, carried to New Orleans in the trunks of the "casket girls."
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House
Neill-Cochran House Museum
This 1850s house was a Civil War hospital in 1865, and in 2012, its director told the University of Texas student paper that Col. Andrew Neill's ghost is said to gallop around it on horseback.
