A HauntBound editor's pick
Haunted hotels you can
actually book a room at.
Twelve haunted hotels across the United States, ranked. Every one of them has a working reservation link. Most of them have an in-house ghost tour or paranormal investigation. The most famous ones (Stanley Hotel, 1886 Crescent, Queen Mary) book months ahead during October. The lesser-known ones on this list are where to go when those are full.
Updated October 14, 2026 12 venues · ranked editorially
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01Long Beach, CA
The Queen Mary
The Grey Ghost: 1,000 Feet of Atlantic History
The RMS Queen Mary was constructed at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard beginning in 1930, launched September 26, 1934, and sailed her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936. Requisitioned as a troopship in 1939, she carried 810,000 soldiers under the nickname 'The Grey Ghost.' The ship has been permanently moored in Long Beach, California since December 1967.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages (Paranormal Ship Walk 13+; Graveyard Tour 16+)Full venue page, history, and reviews →Hotel Stay Aboard the Queen Mary
Two hundred staterooms restored to mid-century ocean liner style. Room B340 — reopened in April 2018 after roughly 30 years of closure — is bookable for those curious about its documented history of reported cover-pulling and shadow figures.
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02Bisbee, AZ
The Oliver House
1909 Bisbee Boarding House Turned Haunted Bed-and-Breakfast
The Oliver House was built in 1909 by Edith Ann Oliver and her husband Henry Oliver to house executives of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The building was converted to a bed and breakfast in 1986 and operates today as a historic inn in Bisbee, Arizona.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: 18+ for overnight ghost-hunt programs; daytime visits all agesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Bed and breakfast overnight
Stay in one of the inn's themed rooms inside the 1909 Calumet & Arizona executives' boarding house, including the Nat Anderson Room and other guest rooms tied to the building's documented incidents.
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03Austin, TX
The Driskill
Austin's 1886 Political Landmark and Its Lingering Colonel
Colonel Jesse Lincoln Driskill, a Tennessee-born cattle baron who supplied beef to the Confederate Army and later the Texas Rangers, opened The Driskill Hotel on December 20, 1886. Its first event, two weeks after opening, was the inaugural ball for Texas Governor Sul Ross. Driskill sold the hotel in 1888 after severe drought devastated his cattle herds and died in 1890. The hotel has hosted every Texas governor's inaugural ball since 1887.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at Austin's Original Grand Hotel
189 rooms and suites in Austin's first luxury hotel, opened December 20, 1886 — including the Cattle Baron suite, the LBJ suite, and the 1886 Suites. The grand staircase is the most documented site of paranormal reports, associated with the death of a child in the late 19th ce…
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04Galveston, TX
Grand Galvez (Hotel Galvez)
1911 Beachfront Hotel with the Lovelorn Bride
Grand Galvez, originally Hotel Galvez, opened in 1911 as part of Galveston's recovery from the catastrophic 1900 hurricane. The Spanish Colonial Revival landmark on Seawall Boulevard is the only historic beachfront hotel on the Texas Gulf Coast and now operates as part of Marriott's Autograph Collection.
Cost: $$$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay (Request Room 501 or 505)
Stay in the historic 1911 hotel on Galveston's Seawall. Room 505 is the most-requested room for guests seeking the reported phantom scent of gardenias and the lingering presence connected to the Lovelorn Bride. Amenities include the on-site Galvez Bar & Grill, beachfront pool,…
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05Eureka Springs, AR
1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa
America's Most Haunted Hotel, Eureka Springs
The 1886 Crescent Hotel was built as a luxury Victorian resort atop the Ozark mountains of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, then briefly operated as a women's college before its most notorious chapter: Norman Baker's fraudulent cancer clinic from 1937 to 1940. Baker charged dying patients for treatments that offered no medical benefit, and the hotel retains his intact basement morgue.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages (Kids Ghost Tour for ages 5-12) AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at America's Most Haunted Hotel
$145-$350/night
Spend the night in one of 72 Victorian rooms at the Crescent, built in 1886 as a luxury mountaintop resort. Room 218 — where a construction worker named Michael reportedly fell to his death during construction — is the hotel's most requested paranormal stay. Room 419 is associ…
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06Asheville, NC
The Grove Park Inn
1913 Asheville Resort with the Pink Lady of Room 545
The Grove Park Inn opened on July 12, 1913, built in just under a year by St. Louis pharmaceutical magnate Edwin Wiley Grove and his son-in-law Fred Loring Seely. The Arts and Crafts resort is faced with native granite hauled from Sunset Mountain.
Cost: $$$$ Family fit: High Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at the Grove Park Inn
Book a room at the 1913 stone-faced resort built by Edwin Wiley Grove. Room 545 and the surrounding fifth-floor corridor are most often tied to the Pink Lady tradition. Ten US presidents — from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama — and figures including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, H…
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07Kewaunee, WI
The Historic Karsten Inn
Kewaunee's 1913 Arts and Crafts Lakeside Inn
The Hotel Karsten opened on Valentine's Day 1913 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, replacing an earlier wood inn called The Steamboat House that burned in the early 1910s. Built and operated by William Karsten Sr., the 52-room Arts and Crafts hotel sits on the Lake Michigan shoreline and remains one of the few surviving hotels of its period in the region.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All AgesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at the Karsten Nest
Stay in the original 1913 Arts and Crafts hotel above Lake Michigan. Rooms 210-215 — the former owner's suite — are the most-reported area for activity attributed to William Karsten Sr. Room 310 is associated with reports of Agatha, the housekeeper-figure central to the hotel'…
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08Americus, GA
The Windsor Hotel
1892 Queen Anne Hotel with Three-Story Atrium Lobby
The Windsor Hotel opened on June 16, 1892 in downtown Americus, Georgia, built to draw winter tourists from the northeastern United States. The five-story Queen Anne building features a three-story open atrium lobby and now operates as a 53-room independent hotel in the Ascend Hotel Collection. Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a 1928 speech at the property.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at the Windsor Hotel
Stay in this 1892 Queen Anne hotel built to draw northern winter visitors to southwest Georgia. The five-story building anchors a city block in downtown Americus, with a three-story open atrium lobby and 53 guest rooms. Room 333 is consistently flagged in regional reporting as…
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09Nashville, IN
Story Inn
Country Inn in the Reassembled Village of Story, Founded in 1851
Dr. George P. Story founded the village of Story in 1851 under a federal land patent signed by President Millard Fillmore. After flourishing as a logging community and then declining following the Great Depression, the abandoned village was purchased in the 1980s and reassembled into the Story Inn — Indiana's oldest country inn and one of the best-preserved 19th-century villages in the American Midwest.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All AgesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at the Story Inn
An overnight stay in Indiana's oldest country inn, occupying the reassembled 19th-century village of Story. The inn offers 15 rooms and cottages, named rather than numbered, intentionally without televisions, clocks, or radios. The Blue Lady Room, located above the historic Ge…
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10Eureka Springs, AR
1905 Basin Park Hotel
Limestone Hotel in the Heart of Eureka Springs
The 1905 Basin Park Hotel is a seven-story limestone hotel in downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas, built on the site of the Perry House, an 1881 hotel that burned in 1890. The Basin Park's distinctive limestone-cut design, with every floor opening at ground level on its hillside, was featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel
Stay overnight in the seven-story limestone hotel that anchors Basin Spring Park in downtown Eureka Springs. The hotel's distinctive design has every floor opening to ground level on its limestone-cut hillside — featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not. Request rooms with docume…
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11Coronado, CA
Hotel Del Coronado
Kate Morgan's Beautiful Stranger Legacy
Hotel del Coronado opened on February 19, 1888, designed by James and Merritt Reid as a wood-frame Victorian resort on the Coronado Peninsula. Financed by Elisha Babcock Jr. and H.L. Story, the building was constructed in just eleven months. It hosted President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 and has received countless heads of state and Hollywood celebrities since. The hotel is a National Historic Landmark and remains a fully operating luxury resort under Hilton's Curio Collection.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: High Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at the Hotel Del
Room 3312 — Kate Morgan's original third-floor room — is the most requested guestroom in the hotel. Guests report flickering lights, temperature shifts, breezes from nowhere, and items moving on their own. Request the room directly when booking; it is frequently reserved far i…
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12Riverside, CA
The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
Riverside's Historic Landmark Hotel with Family Ghosts
The Mission Inn in Riverside, California traces its origins to a small boarding house begun by the Miller family in 1874. Frank Miller bought the property in 1880, opened the first wing of the current building in 1903, and expanded it in stages; by 1931 it comprised four wings. The hotel is a National Historic Landmark, featuring Spanish Mission Revival and Romanesque architecture designed by architect Arthur Benton.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay
The Mission Inn's 238 one-of-a-kind guest rooms include the fourth-floor rooms associated with Frank and Alice Miller, both of whom are reputedly still in residence. Guests in upper-floor rooms have reported hearing a woman singing beautifully in an adjacent room — and later l…
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What we left out
HauntBound has 249 haunted hotels with active online booking in our catalog. Twelve made this list. The rest are filterable on the full Haunted Hotel page. Notable omissions worth a search of your own:
- Regional gems we'll feature in state-specific guides: the Maine coast, the Outer Banks, the Mississippi Delta
- Hotels currently in renovation or seasonal closure: we re-rank when they reopen
- Listings without verified booking URLs: if there's no working reservation system, this guide skips them by policy
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