Haunted Wisconsin

88 haunted destinations cataloged across Wisconsin, spanning 52 counties. The collection features other dark tourism site, haunted dining, and haunted hotel — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

88 locations 52 counties 9 classifications 46 wheelchair accessible

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American Ghost Walks tour group on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus near the Abraham Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill
Other Dark Tourism Site

American Ghost Walks

Madison, WI

American Ghost Walks is a multi-city tour operator founded around 2010, running guided storytelling walks across more than two dozen U.S. cities and territories, including five Wisconsin markets — Madison, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Lake Geneva, and Bayfield — plus stops in Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.

$$ Most tours recommended 13+ Family: Moderate
The white Greek Revival façade of the 1843 Dousman Stagecoach Inn at the Elmbrook Historical Society park in Brookfield, Wisconsin
Museum / Historical Site

Dousman Stagecoach Inn

Brookfield, WI

The Dousman Stagecoach Inn was built in 1843 by Talbot Dousman at the corner of Bluemound Road and Watertown Plank Road in what is now Brookfield, Wisconsin. It served as a stagecoach inn from the 1840s until 1872, then as a private home. In 1981 the Elmbrook Historical Society moved the building to a 20-acre park at 1075 Pilgrim Parkway, where it operates today as a museum. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Buildings Survey.

$ All Ages Family: High
The brick facade of Shaker's Cigar Bar at 422 S. 2nd Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood
Haunted Dining / Bar

Shaker's Cigar Bar

Milwaukee, WI

Shaker's Cigar Bar occupies an 1894 building in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, built as a cooperage for the Schlitz Brewing Company. During Prohibition the building reportedly operated as a speakeasy associated with Frank and Al Capone, with rumored brothel use on its upper floors.

$$ 21+ for the bar; ghost tours typically all ages with adult accompaniment Family: Moderate
Cafe Corazon Riverwest's triangular brick storefront at Bremen and Locust in Milwaukee
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Cafe Corazon Riverwest (Auggie's Triangle Building)

Milwaukee, WI

The building at 3129 N. Bremen Street is a turn-of-the-century triangular brick storefront sited where Bremen and another street meet at an angle in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. It has variously served as a general store, a 1930s tavern called Ye Ol' Triangle Tap, and later Auggie's Triangle Tap — an Outlaws motorcycle-club hangout owned by August 'Auggie' Notbohm. Cafe Corazon, a Mexican restaurant founded by chef Dana Eckmann, took over the space in 2009.

$$ All Ages Family: High
The Gothic Revival stone facade of First Unitarian Church of Milwaukee at 1342 N. Astor Street
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First Unitarian Church of Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI

The First Unitarian Church of Milwaukee is a Gothic Revival stone church built 1891-1892 at 1342 N. Astor Street for a Unitarian congregation founded in 1842. Designed by the Milwaukee architectural firm Ferry & Clas and dedicated on May 15, 1892, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Loyalty Building — now the Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Downtown — exterior at 611 N. Broadway
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Downtown (Loyalty Building)

Milwaukee, WI

The Loyalty Building was constructed in 1886 as the third headquarters of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company on the site of the 1883 Newhall House Hotel fire, which killed at least 71 people. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect S.S. Beman, the building was acquired by Hilton in 2011 and converted to the 127-room Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Downtown by 2012. It is a contributor to the East Side Commercial Historic District.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Milwaukee — 13

The 1910 Brumder Mansion, an English Arts and Crafts residence on Milwaukee's West Wisconsin Avenue
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Brumder Mansion

Milwaukee, WI

The Brumder Mansion was built in 1910 by Milwaukee German-language publisher George Brumder for his eldest son. The English Arts and Crafts residence later operated as a Lutheran women's residence and, during Prohibition, as the cover for a basement speakeasy reportedly tied to local bootlegging networks. It has run as a bed and breakfast since the 1990s.

$$$ Adults preferred; check property policy for children Family: Moderate
Pabst Theater facade on East Wells Street, Milwaukee — meeting point for the Shadow of City Hall Ghost Walk
Other Dark Tourism Site

Milwaukee Shadow of City Hall Ghost Walk

Milwaukee, WI

American Ghost Walks operates the Shadow of City Hall Ghost Walk on Saturdays at 7:30 PM, departing from the Pabst Theater on East Wells Street. The tour was developed by lifelong Milwaukeean and paranormal researcher Allison Jornlin, recipient of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference's 2016 Researcher of the Year award, and has been the city's longest-running ghost tour since 2008.

$$ 13 and older Family: Moderate
Cream City brick warehouses lining the streets of Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward at twilight
Other Dark Tourism Site

Milwaukee Third Ward Ghost Walk

Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Third Ward Ghost Walk, run by American Ghost Walks, covers the city's Historic Third Ward — an arts and shopping district with a 19th-century history as the densely populated Irish immigrant neighborhood known as 'The Bloody Third.'

$$ All Ages with adult accompaniment Family: Moderate
Brick exterior of Shaker's Cigar Bar at 422 S 2nd Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Shaker's Original Historical Ghost Tour

Milwaukee, WI

Shaker's Cigar Bar occupies an 1894 Walker's Point building originally constructed as a cooperage for the Schlitz Brewing Company. During Prohibition the structure operated as a speakeasy reportedly tied to the Capone family, with a brothel on the upper floors. Bob Weiss converted it to its current cigar-bar configuration in 1986.

$$ 21+ inside the bar; ghost tour open to all ages with parental discretion Family: Low
The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin, historic 1893 Romanesque Revival luxury hotel
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Pfister Hotel

Milwaukee, WI

The Pfister Hotel opened in 1893, built to fulfill the vision of Guido Pfister, a German immigrant leather manufacturer who died in 1889 before completion. His son Charles Pfister oversaw the project to completion, spending approximately $1 million. Known as the 'Grand Hotel of the West' at opening, the 307-room building features the largest collection of 19th-century Victorian art in any American hotel. Charles Pfister died in 1927.

$$$ All ages Family: High
The Rave / Eagles Club in Milwaukee Wisconsin, historic 1927 music venue and concert hall
Theater / Performance Venue

The Rave / Eagles Club

Milwaukee, WI

The Eagles Club opened on September 13, 1927, as the Milwaukee headquarters of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Designed as a civic social club, the 180,000-square-foot, seven-level granite block structure originally contained a grand ballroom, barbershop, bowling alley, and swimming pool. Three days before opening, 15-year-old Francis Wren drowned in the basement pool — the event that anchors the building's paranormal reputation. In 1991, the building became The Rave, a concert venue.

$$ All Ages (18+ for some events) Family: Moderate
Forest Home Cemetery Landmark Chapel by Edward Townsend Mix in Milwaukee
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Forest Home Cemetery

Milwaukee, WI

Forest Home Cemetery was founded in 1850 as Milwaukee's first rural-garden cemetery, laid out by Wisconsin scientist Increase A. Lapham on the Mount Auburn model. Spanning roughly 200 acres on the city's south side, it became the burial place of the city's brewing and industrial dynasties including the Pabst, Schlitz, Best, Davidson, and Sholes families. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

$ All Ages Family: High
Entrance to the historic Miller Caves at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Miller Caves

Milwaukee, WI

The Miller Caves are a 600-foot system of hand-dug lagering tunnels carved into a bluff above State Street in 1850 by the Best brothers, owners of the original Plank Road Brewery. Frederick Miller purchased the brewery and caves in 1855, and the caves served as the brewery's primary beer-aging storage until modern refrigeration replaced them in 1906.

$ All Ages Family: High
Milwaukee Public Museum 1963 building on West Wells Street downtown Milwaukee
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Museum / Historical Site

Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Public Museum traces its origins to the German-English Academy's collection acquired by the city in 1882. The current building at 800 West Wells Street was constructed 1960-1962 and opened in 1963, housing the famed Streets of Old Milwaukee diorama. Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi, a Hungarian-born archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica, directed the museum from 1959 until his death in a September 1969 automobile accident. A new building is under construction adjacent to the current site.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion Flemish Renaissance Revival exterior on West Wisconsin Avenue
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion

Milwaukee, WI

The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion was built between 1890 and 1892 for Pabst Brewing Company founder Frederick Pabst (1836-1904), designed by Milwaukee architects George Bowman Ferry and Alfred Charles Clas in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style. After Pabst family ownership ended in 1908, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee used the building as the archbishop's residence for nearly seventy years. In 1978 the nonprofit Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. purchased the property and opened it as a historic-house museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Pabst Theater 1895 German Renaissance Revival facade on East Wells Street downtown Milwaukee
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Theater / Performance Venue

Pabst Theater

Milwaukee, WI

The Pabst Theater opened November 9, 1895, replacing the Stadt Theater destroyed by fire that same year. Captain Frederick Pabst commissioned architect Otto Strack to design the German Renaissance Revival opera house, which was completed in just six months. The Pabst is the fourth-oldest continuously operating theater in the United States and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Riverside Theater French Baroque marquee on West Wisconsin Avenue downtown Milwaukee
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Theater / Performance Venue

Riverside Theater

Milwaukee, WI

The Riverside Theater opened April 29, 1928, as a vaudeville and movie palace inside RKO Pictures' twelve-story Empire Building on West Wisconsin Avenue. Designed by Milwaukee architects Charles Kirchhoff and Thomas Rose in the French Baroque style, the theater hosted vaudeville, big-band, and film bookings until United Artists vacated in 1982. Joseph Zilber's Towne Realty funded a 1.5-million-dollar restoration, and the Riverside reopened as a live-performance venue on November 2, 1984.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Exterior of Sabbatic, a corner punk-rock bar at 700 S. 2nd Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Sabbatic

Milwaukee, WI

Sabbatic occupies a two-story 1890s cream-brick corner saloon at South 2nd and West Pierce Streets in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood. The building has a continuous tavern history that includes a working-class saloon, an early-20th-century boarding house and brothel for dock workers, a Prohibition 'soft-drink parlor' (a common speakeasy euphemism), and the old Union House tavern. Sam Berman opened Sabbatic in December 2009 as a DIY punk-rock bar and live-music venue.

$$ 21+ Family: Not Recommended

Madison — 4

Wisconsin State Capitol building dome at Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin — site of haunted history walking tour
Other Dark Tourism Site

Madison Capitol Square Spirits Ghost Walk

Madison, WI

The Capitol Square and King Street walk operates within Madison's oldest commercial corridor — a district platted in the 1830s as the territorial capital and built up across the 19th century with hotels, taverns, and political clubrooms whose footprints remain in today's streetscape.

$$ 13+ recommended Family: Moderate
Wisconsin State Capitol building dome at Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin — site of haunted history walking tour
Other Dark Tourism Site

Madison Lost Souls of State Street Ghost Walk

Madison, WI

The Madison Lost Souls of State Street tour, operated by American Ghost Walks, was founded by Mike Huberty in 2010 as the first ghost tour in Wisconsin's capital city. The route covers State Street — the pedestrian-priority corridor connecting the Wisconsin State Capitol to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus — and centers on documented witness reports from the corridor's historic theaters and bars.

$$ 13+ Family: Moderate
Bascom Hall and the bronze Abraham Lincoln statue at the top of Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk

Madison, WI

The University of Wisconsin–Madison was founded in 1848, and the Bascom Hill core of the modern campus was the site of an 1837–1846 settler cemetery. The Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk covers Bascom Hill, Science Hall, and additional sites with documented institutional history and reported paranormal accounts.

$$ 10+ recommended Family: Moderate
Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin
Museum / Historical Site

Memorial Union

Madison, WI

Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison opened in 1928 as both a student union and a war memorial honoring veterans of World War I. Plans for the building began in 1919 and groundbreaking took place on Armistice Day 1925 before a crowd of 5,000. The Union sits on the shores of Lake Mendota and remains one of the university's most visited public spaces.

$ All Ages Family: High

Kenosha — 2

Italianate Durkee Mansion at Kemper Center on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Museum / Historical Site

Durkee Mansion / Kemper Center

Kenosha, WI

The Durkee Mansion was built in 1861 by Charles Durkee, an early Wisconsin settler completing his term as U.S. Senator. Beginning in 1865 the property was converted into Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls school operated by the Sisters of St. Mary that ran for 105 years until its closure in 1975.

$ All Ages Family: High
Historic 1927 theater facade in downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin
Theater / Performance Venue

Rhode Center for the Arts (Rhode Opera House)

Kenosha, WI

Peter Rhode, a German immigrant and Kenosha hotelier, opened the original 1,000-seat Rhode Opera House in downtown Kenosha in 1890. The original theater burned in 1896, was rebuilt, and was demolished in 1927 by the Saxe Amusement Company, which constructed the Gateway Theater on the site. The Lakeside Players purchased the building in 1988 and operate it today as the Rhode Center for the Arts.

$$ All Ages (varies by performance) Family: High

Kewaunee — 2

The Arts and Crafts facade of the Karsten Nest Hotel on Ellis Street in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, near the Lake Michigan shoreline
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Karsten Nest Hotel

Kewaunee, WI

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.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Exterior of the 1913 Karsten Inn in Kewaunee, Wisconsin
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Historic Karsten Inn

Kewaunee, WI

The Karsten Inn opened on Valentine's Day 1913 as Hotel Karsten, built by William Karsten Sr. on the site of an earlier wooden lodging known as the Steamboat House that burned in the early 1910s. The building featured 52 rooms, a 90-seat dining room, and a bar with its own entrance.

$$ All Ages (bar 21+) Family: Moderate

Oconomowoc — 2

Fowler Lake at sunset, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Fowler Lake

Oconomowoc, WI

Fowler Lake is a small natural lake in downtown Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, part of the city's chain of recreational lakes. It covers approximately 70 surface acres and is bordered by Fowler Park and the historic Oconomowoc downtown commercial district.

$ All Ages Family: High
Historic gravesite monument at La Belle Cemetery in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, a peaceful 1851 burial ground along the Oconomowoc River
Cemetery / Burial Ground

LaBelle Cemetery

Oconomowoc, WI

LaBelle Cemetery in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin was established in 1851 as the town's first official burial ground, originally known as Henshall Place. In 1864, the Wisconsin Legislature authorized the removal of all remains from the original Walnut Street cemetery to the current La Belle grounds. The cemetery now holds more than 8,000 interments and contains over 90 veterans of the Civil War.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oshkosh — 2

The Grand Opera House in Oshkosh Wisconsin, historic 1883 Victorian theater exterior
Theater / Performance Venue

The Grand Opera House

Oshkosh, WI

The Grand Opera House opened on August 9, 1883 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and is the oldest continuously operating theater building in the state. The Victorian-era hall was designed by architect William Waters and continues to host performances under the management of The Grand Oshkosh.

$$ PG-13 for ghost tours Family: Moderate
Exterior view of the Winnebago Mental Health Institute campus in Winnebago, Wisconsin near Oshkosh, the state's public psychiatric hospital operated since 1873
Asylum / Hospital

Winnebago Mental Health Institute (Winnebago State Hospital)

Oshkosh, WI

The Winnebago Mental Health Institute opened in 1873 as the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, on a Lake Winnebago shoreline campus near Oshkosh. The original Kirkbride-plan main building was completed in 1875 with 500 beds and was demolished in stages during the 1950s and 1960s as the campus shifted to a cluster of specialized halls including Sherman Hall. The facility remains an active state psychiatric hospital under the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

$ All Ages (museum) Family: Moderate

Appleton — 1

Appleton Curling Club facility in Appleton Wisconsin, a historic sports venue with ghostly footsteps reported in the rink
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Appleton Curling Club

Appleton, WI

The Appleton Curling Club was established in 1939 and relocated to its present facility on Westhill Boulevard in January 1960. In 1967, fire damaged the clubhouse but did not destroy the ice rink or compressor room, necessitating rebuilding of the spectators' area.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Athelstane — 1

Wooded campsite along the Peshtigo River at McClintock Park in Marinette County, Wisconsin
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Outdoor / Natural Site

McClintock Park

Athelstane, WI

McClintock Park is a Marinette County campground on the Peshtigo River in Silver Cliff, Wisconsin. On July 9, 1976, campers David Schuldes, 25, and Ellen Matheys, 24, were shot to death here in a double murder that went unsolved for more than four decades. DNA evidence collected from the crime scene eventually led to the 2019 arrest and 2021 conviction of Raymand Vannieuwenhoven, who died in prison in 2022.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Baraboo — 1

Old Baraboo Inn exterior at 135 Walnut Street, Baraboo, Wisconsin — three-story 1864 brick building
Haunted Dining / Bar

Old Baraboo Inn

Baraboo, WI

The Old Baraboo Inn was built as a boarding house in 1864 directly across from the Baraboo railroad depot. Over a century and a half it served as a honky-tonk bar, a brothel, and a roadhouse said in local accounts to have hosted Prohibition-era figures including Al Capone. It now operates as a bar and grill at 135 Walnut Street and hosts regular ghost-hunt events.

$$ 21+ for bar service; ghost hunts typically 18+ Family: Low

Bayfield — 1

The 1883 Old Courthouse in Bayfield, Wisconsin, the meeting point for the Bayfield Ghost Walk, with Lake Superior visible beyond
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Bayfield Ghost Walk

Bayfield, WI

Bayfield, Wisconsin, sits on Lake Superior at the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and was founded in 1856 as a port for shipping and brownstone quarrying. The Bayfield Ghost Walk meets at the Old Courthouse — now home to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters — at 415 Washington Avenue.

$ 10+ recommended Family: Moderate

Berlin — 1

Exterior of the Berlin Sanctuary church complex in Berlin, Wisconsin, featuring the 1908 church building
Other Dark Tourism Site

Berlin Sanctuary

Berlin, WI

The Berlin Sanctuary complex comprises four structures built between 1908 and 1953 in Berlin, Wisconsin: a church, a rectory, a school, and a convent. The complex served an active religious community through most of the 20th century. American Hauntings, the investigation program founded by paranormal author Troy Taylor in 1993, has been hosting investigation events at the complex and describes it as one of the most documented sites in Wisconsin.

$$$ Check American Hauntings for current age requirements Family: Low

Boltonville — 1

A narrow rural Wisconsin road through a wooded swamp in Washington County
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Jay Road / Seven Bridges Road

Boltonville, WI

Jay Road is a rural road in Washington County, Wisconsin that runs from Boltonville east to the Lake Michigan shore. A swampy section locally called Seven Bridges Road is closed seasonally for flooding and ice. The underlying hit-and-run incident anchored to the folklore is not confirmed in publicly searchable Washington County records.

$ All Ages (drive-by) Family: Moderate

Boscobel — 1

Hotel Boscobel (Central House) in Boscobel Wisconsin, the 1865 limestone hotel known as the birthplace of the Gideon Bible
Haunted Dining / Bar

Hotel Boscobel (Central House)

Boscobel, WI

The Central House — now known as the Hotel Boscobel — was built in 1865 in Boscobel, Wisconsin by Prussian-born entrepreneur Adam Bobel, who constructed the original two-story limestone structure with a business partner for $5,000. A three-story extension was added in 1873. Fire gutted the building on January 7, 1881, but Bobel rebuilt; the hotel reopened by May 13 of the same year. Adam Bobel managed the property until his death in 1885. In 1898, two traveling salesmen sharing Room 19 conceived the idea that became the Gideons International, one of the world's largest Bible distribution organizations. The building is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Burlington — 1

Burlington Public Cemetery in Burlington, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Burlington Public Cemetery

Burlington, WI

Burlington Public Cemetery serves as the primary burial ground for Burlington, Wisconsin. Behind the main cemetery lies an older pioneer cemetery approximately 40 years removed from public consciousness, containing the remains of early Burlington settlers and their families.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Canton — 1

A small Wisconsin pioneer cemetery with weathered Scandinavian-style headstones set among mature trees in rural Barron County
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Pioneers Rest Cemetery (Bandli Graveyard)

Canton, WI

Pioneers Rest Cemetery, also known locally as the Bandli Graveyard, sits north of Canton in Barron County, Wisconsin. The cemetery serves the descendants of Scandinavian pioneer families who settled the area in the late nineteenth century. In 2008, the cemetery was the site of a documented grave robbery in which the remains of an infant interred in 1925 were exhumed and removed.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Caryville — 1

Weathered old schoolhouse and church in the near-abandoned logging hamlet of Caryville along Highway 85 in Dunn County, Wisconsin
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Old Caryville Church and School House

Caryville, WI

Caryville is an unincorporated community in the town of Rock Creek, Dunn County, Wisconsin, on the south shore of the Chippewa River along State Highway 85. Once a busy late-1800s logging-era settlement, it dwindled to a near-ghost-town, leaving an old schoolhouse, a church, and the nearby Sand Hill Cemetery as its most visible remnants. These sites have become the focus of some of western Wisconsin's most widely retold ghost stories.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cedarburg — 1

Consolidated nineteenth-century cemetery monument at Founder's Park, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Founder's Park Cemetery

Cedarburg, WI

Founder's Park, on the east side of Evergreen Boulevard north of Western Avenue in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, served as the first burial ground for the Trinity Lutheran congregation in the mid-nineteenth century. Sometime before 1877, the original individual headstones were removed and replaced with a single consolidated monument listing the recovered names of those interred.

$ All Ages Family: High

Chippewa Falls — 1

Red brick Italianate facade of the James Sheeley House Saloon on West River Street in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin — a 19th-century boardinghouse on the National Register
Haunted Dining / Bar

Sheeley House Saloon

Chippewa Falls, WI

The Sheeley House Saloon was built in 1864 and stands as the oldest continuously operating saloon in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Originally a livery and boarding house, the building came into the hands of Irish immigrant James Sheeley and his wife Kate in 1905. Kate Sheeley died in the building in 1934, an event frequently cited in accounts of the property's paranormal reputation.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cornell — 1

Cornell City Hall in Wisconsin
Museum / Historical Site

Cornell Public Library

Cornell, WI

Cornell Public Library occupies a building constructed in 1928 as the Cornell village hall at 117 N 3rd Street in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. The building's basement originally housed the fire hall, jail cells, and furnace room, while the upper floor served as library and council chamber. The building has undergone minimal remodeling since construction.

$ All Ages Family: High

East Troy — 1

The historic cobblestone Buena Vista House / Cobblestone Inn in East Troy, Wisconsin (building demolished 2022)
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Cobblestone Inn (Buena Vista House)

East Troy, WI

The Cobblestone Inn, originally the Buena Vista House, was built in East Troy, Wisconsin by mason Samuel R. Bradley, completed in 1849. The largest known cobblestone building in the state, it was considered the finest inn in southeastern Wisconsin and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. After a multi-year preservation effort failed, the three-story building was demolished in May 2022.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Eau Claire — 1

Downtown Eau Claire site of the 1883 Grand Opera House
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Grand Opera House (Former)

Eau Claire, WI

The Grand Opera House opened in Eau Claire in 1883 at a cost of roughly $60,000 (about $1.5 million today), funded by public money and private donations. With 1,500 seats, elaborate fixtures, and a 14-foot chandelier, it was considered one of the finest performing arts venues in the upper Midwest until it closed in 1930.

$ All Ages Family: High

Elkhart Lake — 1

Lions Park playground at 319 Moraine Drive in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, with swings and open green space
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Lions Park

Elkhart Lake, WI

Lions Park is a community park at 319 Moraine Drive in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, maintained by the Village of Elkhart Lake and equipped by the Elkhart Lake Lions Club. No historical documentation of the childhood accident that underlies the park's paranormal folklore has been found through web search.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fond du Lac — 1

Hotel Retlaw historic exterior, Fond du Lac Wisconsin
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Retlaw

Fond du Lac, WI

Hotel Retlaw opened in 1923 as a vision of Walter Schroeder, a Milwaukee-area hotelier who named the property by spelling his first name backwards. The Milwaukee firm of Herbert W. Tullgren & Son designed the eight-story neoclassical red-brick tower, which originally contained 265 guest rooms. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel has survived conversion to a psychiatric facility and subsequent decades of varying uses before its restoration as a boutique hotel.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Genoa — 1

Big River Inn/Water View Inn in Genoa, Wisconsin
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Big River Restaurant

Genoa, WI

Big River Inn dates to either 1879 or 1896 (sources vary) in Genoa, Wisconsin. The building originally functioned as a restaurant before evolving into a combined inn and restaurant. It now operates as Water View Inn, maintaining its paranormal reputation while serving contemporary hospitality functions.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Glenbeulah — 1

Wooded cemetery path leading to early 19th century graves at Glenbeulah Cemetery in Sheboygan County Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Glenbeulah Cemetery

Glenbeulah, WI

Glenbeulah Cemetery, also known as Walnut Grove Cemetery, contains graves dating to the early 19th century in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The cemetery's remote woodland setting and its inclusion in a segment of the television program Unsolved Mysteries have made it the most discussed haunted burial ground in the state among paranormal researchers.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Green Bay — 1

View of a downtown side street. Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Pine Street between Adams and Jefferson Streets.
Other Dark Tourism Site

Ferguson Family YMCA

Green Bay, WI

The Ferguson Family YMCA at 235 N Jefferson Street in Green Bay, Wisconsin was constructed in 1924 during the city's paper industry boom. The six-story Tudor Revival building served as a residential housing facility for decades before being converted to a fitness and community center. A $13 million renovation modernized the structure while preserving its historic character.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Green Lake — 1

The pioneer-era headstones and family vaults of Dartford Cemetery in Green Lake, Wisconsin.
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Dartford Cemetery

Green Lake, WI

Dartford Cemetery is an old burial ground in the village of Green Lake, Wisconsin, holding pioneer-era burials including Civil War veterans and the relocated grave of Chief Highknocker — a Ho-Chunk leader born Henaga in 1820 who lived around Green Lake (Daycholah) and died in a drowning accident in 1911. His son moved his grave to Dartford in the 1930s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hartland — 1

The Inn (Hartland) dining room interior in Hartland Wisconsin, the 1906 Pabst-era hotel reborn as a wood-fired restaurant
Haunted Dining / Bar

The Inn (Former Hartland Inn / Max Meier's)

Hartland, WI

The Inn at 110 Cottonwood Avenue in Hartland, Wisconsin occupies a 1906 building that opened as a hotel along the Watertown Plank Road. Pabst Brewing Company owned the property during its hotel decades. The building reopened in January 2025 as The Inn after a 2019 kitchen fire closed the long-running Hartland Inn restaurant.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Hayward — 1

Sevenwinds Casino Lodge and Conference Center exterior in Hayward, Wisconsin
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Sevenwinds Casino, Lodge & Conference Center

Hayward, WI

The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians operates Sevenwinds Casino on land in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. The property was previously a farmstead, and when casino construction began in the 1990s, the farmhouse was physically moved approximately one mile down the road rather than demolished. The casino, originally known as LCO Casino Lodge & Convention Center, rebranded as Sevenwinds Casino, Lodge & Conference Center when a new facility opened on September 21, 2018.

$ Casino floor 21+; lodge and restaurant all ages Family: Moderate

Hubertus — 1

Exterior of Fox and Hounds Restaurant in Hubertus Wisconsin, built around an 1845 log cabin in the Kettle Moraine near Holy Hill
Haunted Dining / Bar

Fox & Hounds Restaurant & Tavern

Hubertus, WI

The Fox & Hounds traces its origins to 1845, when the first clerk of Washington County constructed a one-room log cabin in the rolling hills north of Milwaukee. In 1933, equestrian Ray Wolf restored the structure, added a basement bar, and opened it as a restaurant centered on the fox hunts that had become a tradition at the site. The venue has operated continuously for over 90 years.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Janesville — 1

Oak Hill Cemetery landscaped grounds in Janesville, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oak Hill Cemetery

Janesville, WI

Oak Hill Cemetery is Janesville, Wisconsin's oldest operating burial ground, established in 1851 by the Oak Hill Cemetery Association under an act of the Wisconsin Legislature. The cemetery has grown from 20 to 85 acres and contains more than 24,000 burials, including George Parker of Parker Pen, NPS director Arno Cammerer, and Medal of Honor recipient James E. Croft.

$ All Ages Family: High

Juneau — 1

Small rural cemetery along Eagle Road near Juneau in Dodge County, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Eagle Road Cemetery

Juneau, WI

Eagle Road Cemetery near Juneau, Wisconsin — also documented as Evangelical Church Cemetery and Tabor Cemetery — is a small rural burial ground along Eagle Road in Dodge County. It is a historic community cemetery associated with a local Lutheran congregation, though it has developed a separate reputation in regional paranormal accounts.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Keshena — 1

Exterior view of the Menominee Casino Bingo hotel building in Keshena, Wisconsin, photographed from Wisconsin Highway 55
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Menominee Casino Resort

Keshena, WI

The Menominee Casino Resort is owned and operated by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin on tribal land in Keshena. It includes a 103-room hotel, a 13,000-square-foot convention center, and a full casino facility. The resort operates 24 hours daily and serves as the primary economic development venue for the Menominee Nation.

$$ All Ages (casino floor 21+) Family: Moderate

Kohler — 1

Tudor-style exterior of The American Club resort in Kohler, Wisconsin
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The American Club

Kohler, WI

The American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin, was built in 1918 by Walter J. Kohler and the Kohler Company as a residence for the company's immigrant workers, complete with citizenship and English classes. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was renovated and reopened in 1981 as a luxury hotel and remains a AAA Five-Diamond resort and member of Historic Hotels of America.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Ladysmith — 1

Gallup, New Mexico.
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

El Rancho Motel

Ladysmith, WI

The El Rancho Motel in Ladysmith, Wisconsin operates north of town along Highway 27 in the Northwoods region of Rusk County. The property has operated under several names — including Mondor's El Rancho and Northern Lights — and has a long local history that includes a period as a dance hall and, in earlier eras, a house of ill repute. A local newspaper account from 2013 documents the motel's history and the Peavey family's tenure as operators.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lake Geneva — 1

Late-19th-century Queen Anne mansion exterior on the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, lakefront at dusk
Other Dark Tourism Site

Lake Geneva Ghost Walk

Lake Geneva, WI

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, was founded in 1837 and developed in the late 19th century as a resort destination for Chicago industrialists. The Lake Geneva Ghost Walk meets at Seminary Park and covers downtown and lakefront sites including the 1856 Maxwell Mansion and the 1885 Baker House.

$$ 10+ recommended Family: Moderate

Manitowoc — 1

Eight-story brick early 20th century commercial building in downtown Manitowoc
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Evergreen Inn (Manitowoc Place Apartments)

Manitowoc, WI

The eight-story building at 204 North 8th Street in downtown Manitowoc opened in 1906 as the New California Hotel. It later operated as the Evergreen Inn before standing vacant in the early 21st century. A $5.2 million historic rehabilitation completed the conversion to the Manitowoc Place apartments, an income-restricted residential building that opened in the early 2010s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Maribel — 1

Collapsed limestone ruins of the Maribel Caves Hotel in the woods near Maribel, Wisconsin
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Maribel Caves Hotel ("Hotel Hell")

Maribel, WI

The Maribel Caves Hotel was a limestone mineral-springs resort built in 1900 near Maribel in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Developed by Father Francis X. Steinbrecher around the natural springs and caves on the family property, it drew well-to-do guests from Milwaukee and Chicago before declining into a tavern and eventually a fire-gutted, storm-collapsed ruin.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Mequon — 1

Open Graph image from www.cuw.edu
Haunted House / Historic Home

Concordia University Wisconsin

Mequon, WI

Concordia University Wisconsin's 102-acre Mequon campus was purchased on September 15, 1982, from the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who sold the property to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod for $7.1 million. The sisters had maintained a high school for novices on the lakefront grounds; with diminishing enrollment and a community of 130 resident nuns, the campus was too large to sustain. Concordia moved from downtown Milwaukee to Mequon the following year.

$ All Ages Family: High

Mineral Point — 1

Stone exterior of Walker House inn in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, one of the oldest inns in the state, built in 1836
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Walker House

Mineral Point, WI

Walker House was constructed in 1836 in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, making it one of the oldest inns in the state. The site began as a Cornish miners' cave carved from limestone in the 1820s, expanded into a stone house in 1836, and grew to a three-story structure by the late 1850s. On November 1, 1842, William Caffee was publicly hanged in the inn's yard after a murder conviction — the event most cited in the building's paranormal history.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Monroe — 1

Exterior of the 1857 Ludlow Mansion in Monroe, Wisconsin, with rooftop widow's walk
Haunted House / Historic Home

Ludlow Mansion (Idle Hour Farm)

Monroe, WI

The Ludlow Mansion in Monroe, Wisconsin was built in 1857 by businessman and farmer Arabut Ludlow with his wife Caroline Sanderson-Ludlow. The estate was once part of the Underground Railroad and later became Idle Hour Farm, nationally known for champion trotting horses Peter McKinney and Calumet Delco. Granddaughter May Ludlow Luchsinger restored the home in 1937.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Mukwonago — 1

Fork in the Road restaurant exterior in Mukwonago Wisconsin, the neighborhood tavern formerly known as Inn the Olden Days
Haunted Dining / Bar

Fork in the Road (Formerly Inn the Olden Days)

Mukwonago, WI

The building at 215 N Rochester Street in Mukwonago, Wisconsin has operated as a tavern and restaurant since its early days, and for many years was known as Inn the Olden Days. It was renamed Fork in the Road and now operates as a popular scratch-kitchen American restaurant. A fatal fire in an upstairs apartment is part of the building's documented history.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Oak Creek — 1

Bender Park overlooking Lake Michigan cliffs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Bender Park

Oak Creek, WI

Bender Park in Oak Creek overlooks Lake Michigan, offering recreational access to the shoreline. The park's location on cliffs above the beach creates natural hazard conditions. The surrounding roads—particularly Fitzsimmons Road and E. Oakwood Road—have acquired dark reputations from multiple tragedies.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Oneida — 1

Norbert Hill Center campus on Seminary Road in Oneida, Wisconsin — former Catholic seminary and current Oneida Nation headquarters
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Museum / Historical Site

Norbert Hill Center

Oneida, WI

The Norbert Hill Center in Oneida, Wisconsin occupies a campus that began in 1893 as the Oneida Boarding School, an Indian boarding school that operated under federal authority until 1918. The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay purchased the site in 1924 and reopened it as Guardian Angel Boarding School, later converting it to the Sacred Heart Seminary for Catholic priests in 1954. The Oneida Nation leased the space in 1976 and purchased it from the Diocese in 1984, renaming it for Norbert Hill Sr., a community leader.

$ All Ages Family: High

Park Falls — 1

Nola Cemetery, a small rural burial ground near Park Falls in Price County, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Nola Cemetery

Park Falls, WI

Nola Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Price County near Park Falls, Wisconsin, maintained by the City of Park Falls. The cemetery takes its name from Nola Dell Blackburn (1896-1902), a six-year-old girl whose 1902 death made her the first interment on the site and gave the cemetery its name.

$ All Ages Family: High

Phillips — 1

Mr. Knox and Oxen concrete sculpture by Fred Smith at Wisconsin Concrete Park in Phillips, Wisconsin
Museum / Historical Site

Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park

Phillips, WI

Fred Smith, a retired lumberjack and tavern owner born in 1886 to German immigrant parents, began building concrete sculptures on his property along Highway 13 in Phillips, Wisconsin, in 1948. He completed 230 figures before a 1964 stroke ended the work. The Kohler Foundation acquired the site in 1976 and it is now a National Register property.

$ All Ages Family: High

Plymouth — 1

The 1870 Henry H. Huson House in Plymouth, Wisconsin, part of the Yankee Hill Inn Bed and Breakfast
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Yankee Hill Inn Bed and Breakfast

Plymouth, WI

The Yankee Hill Inn operates from two historic Huson family homes in Plymouth, Wisconsin: the 1870 Gothic Italianate Henry Huson House (on the National Register) and the 1891 Queen Anne Gilbert Huson House. Both homes were built by affluent brothers in the Yankee Hill neighborhood and reflect the woodworking and stone-masonry craftsmanship of the period.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Portage — 1

Old gravestones among trees at Church Road Cemetery near Portage, Wisconsin
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Church Road Cemetery

Portage, WI

Church Road Cemetery is a small mid-19th-century rural burial ground at the end of a dead-end road off County Highway O, roughly six miles west of Portage in Columbia County, Wisconsin. The cemetery, with stones dating back to around the 1850s, no longer accepts burials and sits hidden in a thicket of trees.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Racine — 1

The Veterans Memorial gardens at Pritchard Park in Racine, Wisconsin
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Pritchard Park

Racine, WI

Pritchard Park is a 79-acre Racine County community park at 2800 Ohio Street in Racine, Wisconsin, containing the Racine County Veterans Memorial (dedicated 1993), restored wetlands, a 9-acre woodlot, sports fields, and the SC Johnson Community Aquatic Center.

$ All Ages (park closes at dusk) Family: High

Ripon — 1

Exterior of the C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin
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Theater / Performance Venue

C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts (Ripon College)

Ripon, WI

The C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts is Ripon College's performing- and visual-arts complex in Ripon, Wisconsin. Construction began in 1971, with the Caestecker wing added in the 1990s, and it became the permanent home of the college's theater and music programs after earlier homes in the Red Barn Theatre and a temporary stint in the former Grace Lutheran Church.

$ All Ages Family: High

South Milwaukee — 1

The inscribed covered wooden entrance bridge to the Seven Bridges Trail at Grant Park in South Milwaukee
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Grant Park Seven Bridges

South Milwaukee, WI

Grant Park is a 381-acre Milwaukee County park established in 1899 along Lake Michigan in what is now South Milwaukee. The Seven Bridges Trail crosses a wooded ravine system via a covered wooden entrance bridge — inscribed with the line 'Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature' — and six interior wooden bridges down to a Lake Michigan beach trail. The park is operated by the Milwaukee County Parks System.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Spooner — 1

Frank Hammill House, Spooner, Wisconsin
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Frank Hammill House

Spooner, WI

Frank Hammill (1857–1922) was a railroad engineer, newspaper publisher, and politician known as the 'Father of Spooner.' He moved to Spooner, Wisconsin in 1902, consolidated two local newspapers into the Spooner Advocate, served as the city's mayor from 1910 to 1918, and died at the home he built on Summit Avenue in February 1922.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Stevens Point — 1

Stevens Point, United States
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Bloody Bride Bridge (Hwy 66)

Stevens Point, WI

The Highway 66 bridge near Jordan Park in Stevens Point, Wisconsin has no documented tragedy in accessible historical records despite the persistent legend attached to it. No newspaper archives or police records confirm a bride's death at this location. The site sits in Portage County's central Wisconsin corridor and is a popular seasonal destination for folklore enthusiasts.

$ All Ages Family: High

Stockbridge — 1

Gravity Hill optical illusion on Joe road in the town of Stockbridge, WI. The road appears to be going down in elevation, but it is in fact gaining elevation.
Outdoor / Natural Site

Joe Road Gravity Hill

Stockbridge, WI

Joe Road in the Town of Stockbridge, Calumet County, Wisconsin is a documented 'gravity hill' site on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, where a slightly-downhill road appears to climb due to a surrounding-horizon optical illusion. The Stockbridge name reflects the historical presence of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican community in the region.

$ All Ages Family: High

Superior — 1

Queen Anne facade of the Martin Pattison House (Fairlawn Mansion) in Superior, Wisconsin
Museum / Historical Site

Fairlawn Mansion

Superior, WI

Fairlawn Mansion was completed in 1891 as the 42-room Queen Anne home of lumber baron Martin Pattison, a three-time mayor of Superior, Wisconsin. After his 1918 death, his widow Grace donated the house to the Superior Children's Home and Refuge Society, which ran it as an orphanage until 1962. The City of Superior acquired the property in 1963 and now operates it as a public museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Washington Island — 1

Nelsen's Hall and Bitters Pub exterior on Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin
Haunted Dining / Bar

Nelsen's Hall & Bitters Pub

Washington Island, WI

Nelsen's Hall has operated on Washington Island in Door County since 1899, founded by Danish immigrant Tom Nelsen as a dance hall. During Prohibition, Nelsen obtained a pharmacist's license solely to dispense Angostura Bitters as medicinal alcohol — a ruse that kept the establishment open and established the Bitters Club tradition still maintained today. Nelsen died at age 90 in an upstairs room in 1960.

$ All Ages Family: High

Waterford — 1

The Tichigan Lake Inn building on Beach Drive in Waterford, Wisconsin
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Tichigan Lake Inn (What About Linda's, formerly)

Waterford, WI

The Tichigan Lake Inn at 28837 Beach Drive in Waterford, Wisconsin was constructed in the 1920s and operated as a Prohibition-era speakeasy linked to Chicago organized-crime liquor trafficking that moved barrels of whiskey by horse and wagon up to Highway 164 for shipment to Chicago. The building most recently operated as What About Linda's and is reported closed at that address.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Waukesha — 1

The Waukesha Riverwalk along the Fox River at dusk, with downtown brick storefronts visible behind
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Waukesha Ghost Walk

Waukesha, WI

Waukesha rose to national prominence in the 1860s and 1870s as Springs City — a destination resort built around mineral water claimed to have medicinal properties. Many of the route's downtown stops were constructed during that era; the Riverwalk now follows the Fox River through the historic core.

$$ 13+ recommended Family: Moderate

Wauwatosa — 1

Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium building in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin — 1915 Milwaukee County facility on Watertown Plank Road
Asylum / Hospital

Muirdale Sanatorium

Wauwatosa, WI

Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium was built by Milwaukee County in 1914 and 1915 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Named for Wisconsin-raised naturalist John Muir, it pioneered the centralized three-story TB sanatorium design that became a model nationwide. Muirdale ceased TB treatment in the 1960s and closed entirely in 1978. Its main building survives as the Technology Innovation Center within the Milwaukee County Research Park, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Weyauwega — 1

Marsh Road in Waupaca County Wisconsin where the paved road meets dense wetland forest
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Marsh Road

Weyauwega, WI

Marsh Road is a short rural road in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, running south from State Highway 54 on the east side of White Lake near Weyauwega. The road is paved for approximately one mile before transitioning to unpaved ground as it enters the wetland. It has no road markings. The county road is unremarkable by day; it gained a regional paranormal reputation in local oral tradition and through periodic documentation by Wisconsin paranormal researchers.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Wild Rose — 1

A small kettle lake surrounded by mixed hardwood forest in Waushara County, Wisconsin
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Tuttle Lake

Wild Rose, WI

Tuttle Lake is a small lake in Waushara County, Wisconsin, near the village of Wild Rose. The Village of Wild Rose's official history records the Tuttle Lake shoreline as a longstanding Native American camping ground in the period before European settlement, when seasonal gatherings drew hundreds of indigenous visitors.

$ All Ages Family: High

Wisconsin Dells — 1

Showboat Saloon in Wisconsin Dells, the 1907 bar haunted by Ghost Molly with original tin ceilings and historic charm
Haunted Dining / Bar

Showboat Saloon

Wisconsin Dells, WI

The Showboat Saloon building was constructed in 1907 as a tavern on the ground floor with railroad office space on the second floor. Originally called Stanton's Palm Garden, operated by William and Minnie Stanton, it survived Prohibition and resumed tavern operations until 1965, when it became the Showboat Saloon with a focus on live music. The building has since been associated with the Wisconsin Dells ghost tour circuit under the name Ghost Molly's Showboat Saloon.

$ All Ages Family: High

Wisconsin Rapids — 1

Hotel Mead resort and conference center exterior at dusk in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, with lit windows and yellow Black-eyed Susan flowers in front
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Mead

Wisconsin Rapids, WI

Hotel Mead at 451 East Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids has operated as a resort and conference center for decades. Its basement level, known as the Shanghai Room, served as a bar and gambling operation in the 1950s. The establishment continues in operation today as one of the area's primary lodging venues.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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