Has anyone been to the Coral Castle in Florida?
As for anything near me, I got nuttin’.
Yes - we were there last Labor Day. Not so much spooky, but charming – pretty, and in a sunny location.
That being said, the Latvian immigrant who built it, Edward Leeskalnin, was a little eccentric, to put it mildly. He built the whole structure as testament to the memory of his “Sweet Sixteen” who had jilted him the day before their wedding. He also had a bee in his bonnet about magnetism.
I’ve considered taking a trip to see the Winchester House. Any experiences to relate, STG?
Gimghoul Castle and the Order of Gimghoul.
Rumors abound, but no one knows the real story behind either.
The Carus Mansion: Hegeler Carus Mansion - Wikipedia
According to this site (Loading...) it’s haunted. Friends and I used to drive past it but never caught a glimpse of anything.
This behemoth of a Victorian home, built by the wealthy owner of a chemical company, is the very picture of a Walt Disney style “haunted mansion”. Locals claim the original owner’s apparition appears in the windows, and in some versions he hangs himself. Reports of apparitions in the adjoining family graveyard, and of ghostly whispers, children’s laughter, and footsteps in the house are also reported.
I don’t know if it shows up in the pages cited but there’s a second house that is connected by an underground tunnel. Big bucks…they later sold their chemical operation to Owens-Corning, IIRC.
I notice they’re restoring it. I have misgivings about that. According to some, they were Nazi sympathizers. My sister is always hitting flea markets and such, and the story passed around in such venues is that family members had hollowed out books for transporting jewels to help finance the Third Reich. Or was that just the locals hating on rich Germans?
It was years and years ago, so probably a lot of things have changed. It didn’t feel ‘spooky’ to me, just interesting. Besides the architectural oddities, there were some cool time-saving oddities for the time.
I’d be interested in going again.
Never been there.
Note–some local historians assert that there was no account of this “haunting” before the Civil War.
I suppose it was inevitable that I rad this as the Old Stone Fart - which, I suppose is what the Old Man of the Mountains did, blowing his face off the side of Franconia Notch.
I live near a haunted covered bridge.
Jeddah has the Tomb of Eve. The Proper Authorities were concerned about non-Islamic goings on and filled it with concrete.
Nothing to see, move along, move along.
Just to name a few: Dead Horse Point, Jackass canyon, Land of Standing Rocks, Skull arch, Skull Rapid, Sock-it-to-me rapid, fiery furnace, devil’s kitchen, devil’s lane, Paul Bunyan’s potty, labyrinth canyon, spooky gulch and my own personal favorite-Box Death Hollow.
And, yes, I’ve succumbed to my curiosity and gone and visited; they’re all great! 
Oh, well, if we’re talking about creepy, potentially “haunted” places, the are the ruins of Corpsewood Manor set way back in the woods amid the Chattahoochee National Forest, near where I grew up. It was the site of the grisly double murder of its owners, a pair of purported “Satan worshipers.” (They were probably just harmless neo-pagans.)
Getting there will require a Blair-Witch-like hike through the woods, and your hike will end at the creepy, vine-covered ruins of the old manse.
2 a.m. on the 97 Yonge night bus?
Alternately, if you’re talking about paranormal stuff, the Grange (near the Art Gallery of Ontario) is supposed to be haunted. A lot.
Not so much as mysterious as strange, some bloke put a school bus up on a large rock in the middle of the Kanawha River near Alloy, WV, which is about 45 min from Charleston. I guess he lives there as well; the last time I was up that way he was sitting on the rock fishing.
Those aren’t weird – they’re just weird names.
You want weird in Utah? Try the ghost towns. (There’s a whole book devoted to them). Or go to Gilgal in Salt Lake City
(I used to live two blocks from it, and visited when I lived there.)
I just read that as “Stan worshipers.” Who doesn’t love Freberg?
Wikipedia, same article: “weighing easily over 5 tons”
There’s a place in my neighborhood that is about .5 ~ 1 acre, and every square foot is completely covered in rhododendron bushes. Completely, no paths, clearings, walkways, only a narrow dirt drive. Way at the back of the property is a squat, square, creepy old house.
I try to imagine what it must be like, crawling around under the boughs of a dense rhodie forest, and what possessed anyone to do such a thing. Eccentric? Fetishist? Bumblebee rancher?
I’ve thought of putting some type of bushes all over my yard just so I would not have to mow. I hate yard work.
I don’t 'cause I suspect the neighbors would hate me more.
Richmond is home to the collapsed Church Hill Tunnel, with the locomotive and bodies still in it: http://www.vahistorical.org/news/richmondtunnel.htm
A friend and I were in Swords Castle having a look around a number of years ago. It is currently being “disneyfied” to make it a tourist attraction but for years it was locked up and access wasn’t so easy. Inside the grounds we found the remains of a small fire with lots and lots maybe a dozen or more bird skeletons around it.