30 haunted destinations cataloged across Alaska, spanning 14 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, outdoor, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Juneau, AK
The Alaskan Hotel opened in 1913 on South Franklin Street during Juneau's Gold Rush years and is the oldest operating hotel in the city. The Victorian-style building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and retains much of its original interior. The ground-floor Alaskan Bar has operated as a downtown gathering place for more than a century.
McCarthy, AK
Kennecott is a preserved copper-mining ghost town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The mines operated from 1911 to 1938, producing 4.6 million tons of ore and 1.183 billion pounds of copper. The site is a National Historic Landmark and is administered by the National Park Service.
Anchorage, AK
Snow City Cafe has occupied the historic building at 1034 West 4th Avenue, on the corner of 4th and L Street, since 1998. The same building previously housed the travel agency run by Muriel Pfeil. On September 30, 1976, Pfeil was killed by a car bomb planted in her Volvo, parked in the lot directly across L Street from this building. It remains the only car bombing in Alaska's history and has never been solved.
Seward, AK
The Van Gilder Hotel building was built in 1916 in downtown Seward by E.L. Van Gilder of Kellogg, Idaho, designed by architect William Kingsley, and later sold to local businessman Charles Brown. It has hosted notable guests including President Warren G. Harding's 1923 party, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is Seward's oldest surviving hotel building.
Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery was established as a Cemetery Reserve by President Woodrow Wilson in Executive Order 2242 of August 31, 1915, the same year the federal government laid out the Anchorage townsite. The first recorded burial was Francis Amestoy on July 6, 1915. The Municipality of Anchorage became the managing agency in 1979, and the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1993.
Anchorage, AK
The Oscar Anderson House was built in 1915 by Swedish-born pioneer Oscar Anderson, who said he was the 18th person to arrive at the Ship Creek tent city that became Anchorage. It is the first wood-frame house in Anchorage. Anderson lived here until his death in 1974, after which the structure was restored and opened as a historic house museum.
Juneau, AK
American Ghost Walks runs a single nightly product in Juneau, Alaska: a 2-hour guided walking tour centered on the Alaskan Hotel, Alaska's oldest operating hotel, and covering downtown Gold Rush-era landmarks tied to the region's paranormal folklore and the Alaska Triangle.
Juneau, AK
The Red Dog Saloon at 278 South Franklin Street dates to Juneau's mining era and has been recognized by the Alaska Legislature as the oldest man-made tourist attraction in the city. Known for its sawdust floor and Gold Rush atmosphere, it has been a downtown fixture for generations, with a memorabilia-covered interior that includes a pistol attributed to Wyatt Earp.
Juneau, AK
The Silverbow Inn occupies the historic Messerschmidt building in downtown Juneau, which housed a bakery founded by the Messerschmidt family in the city's early decades. The site has long been associated with baking, later operating as the Silverbow Bakery before the connected buildings were combined into a boutique inn. Sources differ on exact dates, placing the original bakery around the turn of the 20th century.
Juneau, AK
The Treadwell complex on Douglas Island, across Gastineau Channel from Juneau, was once among the largest hard-rock gold mines in the world. Established by John Treadwell in 1881, it employed more than 2,000 people at its peak. In 1917 three of its four mines flooded and collapsed in a single afternoon. The operation closed permanently in 1922, leaving the ruins that the Treadwell Historic Preservation and Restoration Society now maintains as a trail system.
Ketchikan, AK
American Ghost Walks runs a single nightly product in Ketchikan, Alaska: a 2-hour guided walking tour covering Creek Street, the historic waterfront, and downtown landmarks tied to the region's paranormal folklore and the Alaska Triangle.
Ketchikan, AK
Creek Street is an elevated wooden boardwalk built on pilings over Ketchikan Creek. From the early 1900s until 1954 it was the city's red-light district, with dozens of brothels operating over the water. Today the converted buildings house shops and museums, and the district is one of Ketchikan's most-visited attractions and a featured stop on the local ghost walk.
Ketchikan, AK
Dolly's House at No. 24 Creek Street was the home and business of Dolly Arthur, Ketchikan's best-known madam. She bought the house in 1919 and operated it through the red-light era until Alaska closed the trade in 1954. The green building is the last of Creek Street's working houses still standing as it was, and it now operates as a museum.
Ketchikan, AK
The Gilmore Hotel opened in 1927 on Front Street in downtown Ketchikan and is described as the oldest hotel in the city. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sits near the cruise docks and Creek Street, and continues to operate as a hotel with a ground-floor restaurant.
Skagway, AK
Eagles Hall stands at 6th Avenue and Broadway in Skagway, Alaska, and is home to the Days of '98 Show, a gold-rush melodrama performed there since 1923 and billed as Alaska's longest-running theatrical production. The Fraternal Order of Eagles assembled the hall around 1920 from earlier gold-rush-era hotel buildings, within what is now the Skagway Historic District.
Skagway, AK
The Golden North Hotel opened in 1898 in Skagway, Alaska, during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Its distinctive corner cupola became one of the most photographed buildings in town. The hotel closed in 2002, and the building has since been restored to its gold-rush-era exterior and converted to retail and office use. It sits within the Skagway Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.
Skagway, AK
The Red Onion Saloon opened in 1898 at Broadway and Second Avenue in Skagway during the Klondike Gold Rush, operating as a dance hall, saloon, and bordello. The upstairs held ten small rooms, called cribs, where women worked under a series of madams. The building survived the post-rush decline and now runs as a saloon, restaurant, and brothel museum within the Skagway Historic District.
Skagway, AK
The Gold Rush Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Skagway, lying within Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park about two miles from downtown. Its best-known graves are those of Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith, the confidence man who controlled much of Skagway's underworld in 1898, and Frank H. Reid, who shot Smith in the gunfight on Juneau Wharf on July 8, 1898, and died of his own wounds twelve days later.
Fairbanks, AK
Birch Hill Cemetery was laid out on a hillside overlooking Fairbanks in 1938 as a successor to the older Clay Street Cemetery. Early Fairbanks miner Antone 'Tony' Zimmerman developed and donated the land, in part to fulfill the wish of his first wife, Serina, who died in 1938. The cemetery holds notable pioneers, including Klondike miner Elam Harnish and Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich.
Fairbanks, AK
Chena Hot Springs Road is a 56.5-mile state-maintained paved road that runs east from the Steese Highway near Fairbanks, paralleling the Chena River through interior Alaska boreal forest and terminating at Chena Hot Springs Resort. The corridor is one of the most accessible aurora-viewing routes in Alaska. Birch Hill, an elevated area in the early miles of the road, is a well-known local viewing spot for both aurora displays and Fairbanks-area light phenomena.
Fairbanks, AK
The Westmark Fairbanks Hotel and Conference Center is a 400+ room downtown property operated by Holland America Line through its Westmark Hotels subsidiary. Originally built in the mid-20th century, the hotel functions as a primary lodging hub for cruise-and-land tourists arriving in interior Alaska.
Sitka, AK
Castle Hill in Sitka is the rock outcrop the Tlingit called Noow Tlein. It was the site of the 1804 Battle of Sitka between the Kiks.adi Tlingit and the Russian-American Company, later the seat of Russian colonial government, and the place where Alaska was formally transferred from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867. The site is a National Historic Landmark and an Alaska State Historic Park.
Sitka, AK
The Russian Bishop's House in Sitka was built between 1841 and 1843 and is one of the few surviving Russian colonial buildings in North America. It served as the residence and administrative seat of the Russian Orthodox diocese, including Bishop Innocent Veniaminov. It is a National Historic Landmark and is preserved and operated by the National Park Service as part of Sitka National Historical Park.
Sitka, AK
The Sitka Russian Cemetery on Observatory Street is a Russian Orthodox burial ground more than two centuries old, with over 1,600 graves. Many are marked with three-bar Orthodox crosses and with headstones cut from the ballast stone of Russian ships. Still used by the parish of St. Michael's Cathedral, the cemetery is overgrown and partly reclaimed by the surrounding temperate rainforest.
Anchorage, AK
The Historic Anchorage Hotel opened in 1916 when Anchorage was still a tent camp on the banks of Ship Creek. The original 1916 building was demolished, but the 1936 Annex survives at 330 E Street and remains in continuous operation as the city's oldest hotel. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Anchorage, AK
US Ghost Adventures runs its Anchorage program, branded 'Anchorage Ghosts,' as a nightly downtown walking tour meeting at the Oscar Anderson House Museum in Elderberry Park and covering the Historic Anchorage Hotel, Hotel Captain Cook, and the Boney Courthouse.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPChitina, AK
The Old Copper Railroad is the abandoned grade of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway, the line that carried ore from the Kennecott copper mines past Chitina to the port of Cordova between 1911 and 1938. After the mines closed and the railway was pulled up, much of the route was eventually converted into the gravel McCarthy Road, which still runs roughly 60 miles from Chitina toward the Kennecott townsite.
Kodiak, AK
The Kodiak History Museum, long known as the Baranov Museum, occupies the Russian-American Magazin, built by the Russian-American Company between about 1805 and 1808 as a warehouse for sea-otter pelts. It is the oldest standing building in Alaska. It later became the home of the Erskine family and is now a museum of Alutiiq and Russian-American history.
Solomon, AK
The Last Train to Nowhere is a group of three abandoned steam locomotives and rolling stock from the Council City and Solomon River Railroad, sitting in the tundra near the gold-rush ghost town of Solomon, about 33 miles east of Nome. The railroad was built by outside investors during the Nome gold rush, reached only a few dozen miles, and was abandoned by 1907. The equipment has rusted in place ever since.
Talkeetna, AK
The Fairview Inn opened in 1923 in Talkeetna to serve travelers on the newly arrived Alaska Railroad, and it has operated as an inn and bar ever since. The two-story frame building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1982, and is a contributing property in the Talkeetna Historic District.