New York City's famed Hotel Chelsea opened in 1884. Since its inception, the Manhattan hotel has been used as an informal ...

Spooky season is almost coming to an end, which means it’s time to get those scary thrills out of our systems ASAP! My friends and I are planning a road trip before fall wraps up, during which we hope ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." By nature, hotels are transitory spaces—places where people check in, stay a few nights, and move on. But ...

Writer and poet Carl Sandburg once said, "And the dead know much, and the dead holder under their tongues, a locked-up story." Haunted hotels have always fascinated those drawn to the strange and the ...

Whether you’re looking to get in the Halloween spirit or simply want to sleep in the same place as your favorite Old Hollywood starlets, these are California’s historic haunts. Of course, many of ...

At L.A. Family Travel, we love a good haunt! Not so much of surly ghoulish teens hired to dress in gore with strobe lights making us nauseous–but definitely fans of pleasant (and slightly unsettled) ...

The Shining's Stanley Hotel, Bates Motel, Roald Dahl's Hotel Excelsior − hotels set the stage for some of the most chilling horror movies on the scene. To the absolute horrification of Halloween ...

If you’ve graduated from Halloween’s staged haunted houses and their almost predictable jump scares, you’re ready for an unscripted spooky slumber party with ghosts at a haunted hotel any time of the ...