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What makes a great haunted house? Gothic architecture? Unexpected things that go bump in the night? Chain saws? Thunder and lightening? Screams, shrieks and wails that pierce through fog? Dripping red goo that looks a lot like blood? Cockroaches on ...

Old prisons look creepy in the day. In the dark, they can really spook you. Perhaps it's those rusted locks, the way cell doors sound when they clank shut, the stairs where people don't tread anymore. Add a hangman's noose or an electric chair, and ...

Happy Halloween! This video clip of Mansfield Reformatory, a former prison in Ohio, is of a documentary that highlights the prison's paranormal activities. It's creepy whether you court the idea of the paranormal or not. When I was walking ...

May is the month that kicks off the full season of the Ohio State Reformatory tours. This prison that played centerpiece to the movie Shawshank Redemption is a Gothic style stone building that looks formidable even in daylight. At night it can really ...

In addition to being a traveler and a blogger, I am also, in my spare time, a full-time law student. (Should it be the other way around? Oh well.) As a future lawyer interested in criminal law, I've had a couple of opportunities to see the inside of ...

There are haunted prison tours and haunted hotels to sleep in. Here is another way to traipse through some haunts for Halloween. Graveyards that can seem peaceful during the day are perfect settings at night for finding chills and thrills. If there ...

When picking out a haunted house to go to for Halloween fun with kids, it helps to know your child. Even then, it may not be a guarantee of a good time. When we headed into the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World a few days before my son's 6th ...

Feeling trapped in your day-to-day life? How about a visit to the house of pain? The big house? The Malmaison Oxford is a former prison which has been converted into a luxury hotel. This building served as a prison for 125 years before being ...

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Prison food, from what I've been told, is never very good--unless, of course, you happen to be dining at Fortezza Medicea in Volterra, Italy. Fortezza Medicea is a real life prison where convicts operate a fully functioning restaurant that serves ...

Here's some more news out of London, this one right in time for the holiday weekend. The folks at Time Out have compiled a list of the greatest ghouls and scariest tales of the "City of the Dead". Find out where the most haunted house is, ...

On my recent trip to Peru, an Australian who I was hiking the Inca trail with introduced me to the infamous San Pedro prison in downtown La Paz, Bolivia. For the uninitiated, this is a one-of-a-kind place--and the inspiration for the Panamanian ...

Halloween is still a few weeks away, but the holiday seems to creep into the shadows throughout the month of October, leading up to the scariest night of the year. The Travel Channel has a Friday night lineup celebrating all things ...

Want to get spooked this Halloween? If your travels find you in any of these ten East Coast cities, be sure to check out the haunted tours happening on and around Halloween. Alexandria, VA: This Colonial Tour Group runs their original Ghost and ...

Ever wanted to visit the legendary Alcatraz Prison? To see the very place that Clint Eastwood once set off the escape from the supposedly unescapable island? Well, you've been able to do that for some time now, since the prison closed many years ago. ...