Haunted Museums

30 haunted museums mapped across 22 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Andrew Low HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAHome to one of Savannah's wealthiest cotton merchants, and later to Juliette Gordon Low, the Andrew Low House hosted guests from Robert E.
• Audubon House and GardensMuseum · Key West, FLHarbor pilot and master wrecker Captain John H.
• Betsy Ross HouseMuseum · Philadelphia, PAThis small Old City house, built around 1740, is celebrated as the home of upholsterer Betsy Ross, traditionally credited with sewing the first American flag.
• Biltmore EstateMuseum · Asheville, NCGeorge Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed in 1895 and now a house museum, has accumulated a body of ghost lore reported on regional tours and in local guides.
• Dahlonega Gold Museum (Old Lumpkin County Courthouse)Museum · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1836 to settle the flood of claim disputes from America's first major gold rush, this brick courthouse — fired from local clay laced with trace gold — is the oldest standing courthouse in Georgia and served Lumpkin County until 1965 before becoming the Dahlonega Gold Museum.
• Edgar Allan Poe MuseumMuseum · Richmond, VAHoused in the Old Stone House, one of the oldest structures in Richmond, the Poe Museum honors the writer who grew up in the city.
• Emlen Physick EstateMuseum · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1879 for Dr.
• Ernest Hemingway Home and MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis French Colonial mansion was built in 1851 by marine architect and salvager Asa Tift and became Ernest Hemingway's home from 1931 to 1939, where he wrote some of his best-known work with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.
• Fort East Martello MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis 1862 Civil War-era brick fort houses Robert the Doll, arguably America's most famous haunted object.
• Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama)Museum · Tifton, GAOpened on July 4, 1976 and long known as the Agrirama, this 95-acre living-history village gathers wiregrass-era farmhouses, a turpentine still, a gristmill, and a working sawmill rescued from across South Georgia and rebuilt as a single 1800s settlement.
• Isaiah Davenport HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAOne of Savannah's very first preservation projects, the Davenport House narrowly escaped the wrecking ball before the city saved it in 1955.
• Jerome State Historic Park (Douglas Mansion)Museum · Jerome, AZMining magnate James S.
• John Mark Verdier HouseMuseum · Beaufort, SCThis Federal-style mansion was built around 1804 by John Mark Verdier, a wealthy French Huguenot merchant and planter.
• Juliette Gordon Low BirthplaceMuseum · Savannah, GAThe founder of the Girl Scouts was born in this Regency mansion in 1860, and the house stayed in her family for generations.
• Margaret Mitchell HouseMuseum · Atlanta, GAThe brick Tudor on Crescent Avenue was the Crescent Apartments when Margaret Mitchell and her husband took a cramped ground-floor unit she dubbed "The Dump," and it was there, between 1925 and 1932, that she wrote most of Gone with the Wind.
• Marietta/Cobb Museum of ArtMuseum · Marietta, GAA block off Marietta Square, the museum occupies a Greek Revival building raised in 1909 to serve as the town's post office, a role it held until 1963 before housing the Cobb County library and finally becoming a fine arts museum in 1990.
• National Civil War Naval Museum at Port ColumbusMuseum · Columbus, GABuilt along the Chattahoochee River, the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus houses the salvaged hulls of Confederate warships, including the CSS Jackson and the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee, alongside flags, weapons, and the uniforms of sailors who died at sea.
• New Orleans Pharmacy MuseumMuseum · New Orleans, LABuilt in 1823 as the apothecary and home of Louis J.
• Old Governor's MansionMuseum · Milledgeville, GACompleted in 1839, the Greek Revival mansion served as Georgia's executive residence through the antebellum years and the Civil War, its kitchens run for decades by free and enslaved staff before the capital moved to Atlanta and the house passed to Georgia College.
• Owens-Thomas HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAAn architectural jewel of Regency Savannah, the Owens-Thomas House is best known today for its remarkably intact urban slave quarters.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic SiteMuseum · St. Francisville, LADaniel and Martha Turnbull built Rosedown's main house in 1834-35, surrounding it with formal gardens Martha modeled on the great gardens of France and Italy.
• Southeastern Railway MuseumMuseum · Duluth, GAGeorgia's official transportation history museum sits on a sprawling Duluth rail yard, where among its ninety-plus pieces of rolling stock rests the Pullman private car "Superb," built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
• Spanish Governor's PalaceMuseum · San Antonio, TXThis 1749 adobe-and-limestone building, the only surviving example of an aristocratic Spanish colonial residence in Texas and a National Historic Landmark, served as the residence and offices of the captain of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar.
• Spanish Military Hospital MuseumMuseum · St. Augustine, FLReconstructed in 1966 on its original foundations, the Spanish Military Hospital recreates a ward from St.
• Telfair AcademyMuseum · Savannah, GABuilt as a family mansion and left to the city as one of the oldest public art museums in the country, the Telfair still seems to answer to Mary Telfair.
• The Bryan MuseumMuseum · Galveston, TXThe Bryan Museum occupies the building of the former Galveston Orphans' Home, constructed in 1895, damaged in the 1900 Storm, and rebuilt to reopen in 1902.
• The Oldest Drug StoreMuseum · St. Augustine, FLOn the corner of Orange and Cordova streets, the Oldest Drug Store stands on ground that old town maps mark as a Native American village — a Tolomato mission settlement later absorbed into the Spanish colonial city, its people displaced.
• The Rice Museum (Old Market & Kaminski Building)Museum · Georgetown, SCGeorgetown's Rice Museum occupies two 1842 landmarks downtown: the clock-towered Old Market and the adjacent Kaminski Hardware Building, which later held a hardware store and now houses the Prevost art gallery.
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial (Old Kentucky Home)Museum · Asheville, NCThis rambling Victorian boarding house, now a North Carolina State Historic Site, was run by Julia Wolfe, mother of novelist Thomas Wolfe, who immortalized it as 'Dixieland' in his 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.' During the 1918 influenza epidemic, Thomas's older brother Ben died of the flu in an upstairs bedroom at age 26, a loss central to the novel; visitors often pause outside that room and report a chill or faint footsteps in the upper hallway.
• Tombstone Courthouse State Historic ParkMuseum · Tombstone, AZBuilt of red brick in 1882 in a Victorian style, the Cochise County Courthouse served justice for decades before becoming a state historic park and museum.