12 haunted destinations cataloged across Hawaii, spanning 4 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, theater, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Waipahu, HI
Hawaii's Plantation Village opened in 1992 as a 50-acre open-air museum in Waipahu, recreating a multiethnic sugar-plantation camp of roughly 30 restored and replica structures spanning 1850 to 1950.
Honolulu, HI
Henry Kaiser began developing the Hilton Hawaiian Village on a 22-acre stretch of Fort DeRussy beachfront in 1954. The resort grew across multiple towers over subsequent decades and today hosts more than 2,500 rooms, making it the largest hotel in Hawaiʻi.
Honolulu, HI
The Manoa Chinese Cemetery, officially the Lin Yee Chung Cemetery, was founded in 1852 by the Lin Yee Chung Association to provide proper burial for Chinese immigrants to Hawaii. The 28-acre cemetery occupies a south-facing hillside in the Manoa Valley selected according to feng-shui principles. It is the oldest and largest Chinese cemetery in the Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu, HI
The Moana Hotel opened March 11, 1901 as Waikiki's first hotel, a four-story Beaux-Arts beachfront property featuring Hawaiʻi's first electric-powered elevator. It was the site of Jane Stanford's 1905 death by strychnine poisoning, a case Stanford University later classified as homicide. After multiple renovations and the addition of newer towers, the original 1901 wing operates today as the Moana Surfrider, a Westin Resort & Spa and a member of Historic Hotels of America.
Honolulu, HI
Oʻahu Cemetery was founded in November 1844 as the first public cemetery in Honolulu, established to meet the burial needs of a rapidly growing foreign population during the whaling era. The original 4.38-acre site has expanded to 18 acres in Nuʻuanu Valley. Architect Oliver G. Traphagen designed the first public crematory in the Hawaiian Islands here in 1906. The cemetery includes graves of baseball pioneer Alexander Cartwright, philosopher Joseph Campbell, and the Hawaiian princess Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaʻole.
Paia, HI
Old Maui High School opened in 1913 as Maui's first co-educational public high school, serving the children of sugar-plantation families in the Hamakuapoko district near Paia. Its landmark Spanish Mission Revival administration building, designed by architect Charles W. Dickey, opened in December 1921. The school relocated to Kahului in 1972, and the original campus has stood largely abandoned since.
Honolulu, HI
The Hawaiʻi Theatre opened September 6, 1922 as Consolidated Amusement Company's flagship movie palace, the largest and most ornate theatre in Hawaiʻi at 1,760 seats. Designed by architects Walter Emory and Marshall Webb, it combined Neoclassical, Byzantine, Corinthian, and Moorish ornament. After near-demolition it was restored and reopened in 1996, was named the 'Outstanding Historic Theatre in America' in 2005, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wailuku, HI
The Iao Theater opened in 1928 in downtown Wailuku in the Spanish Mission style, serving as Maui's premier vaudeville and movie house. During World War II it hosted USO shows including performances by Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra for troops transiting the island. The theater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains an active community venue.
Kailua-Kona, HI
The Courtyard by Marriott King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel sits on Kamakahonu Bay in downtown Kailua-Kona, the site where King Kamehameha I, the unifier of the Hawaiian Islands, lived out his final years from 1812 until his death in 1819. The reconstructed Ahu'ena Heiau, his personal temple and seat of government, occupies the makai edge of the property and is a National Historic Landmark.
Honolulu, HI
Ford Island, at the center of Pearl Harbor, was the primary target of the first Japanese attack wave on December 7, 1941. Hangars 37 and 79 — then part of Naval Air Station Ford Island — were bombed and strafed during the attack. Hangar 79 retains original bullet holes from that morning. The Pacific Aviation Museum opened in these original hangar structures in 2006, using the intact attack-era buildings as the foundation of a working aviation history museum.
Honolulu, HI
The Waikiki Parc Hotel opened in 1987 as a 297-room sister property to the Halekulani in Honolulu's Waikiki district. The hotel closed in October 2018 for a multi-million-dollar renovation and reopened in October 2019 as Halepuna Waikiki by Halekulani. The building continues to operate as a boutique luxury hotel under its new brand.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWaipahu, HI
The area around Waipahu and Kipapa Gulch was a significant site in Hawaiian history, connected to the wars of unification under King Kamehameha I. In the later 19th and early 20th centuries, the Oahu Sugar Company operated a plantation in Waipahu, employing workers brought from Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, and other nations. The sugar mill and the old plantation road above the S-turn were central to Waipahu's identity for over a century before the plantation era ended.