The Best Virtual Haunted Spaces You Can "Walk Through" This Halloween

For about $9, you can get "unprecedented access" to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, through an immersive and self-guided 360-degree tour. The bizarre home was once the residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the heiress to the gun fortune and a widow whose infant daughter died of a childhood illness and husband of tuberculosis. You can explore each room and level of the mansion–including the spaces that are typically off-limits on standard in-person tours. Take the tour here.

Best known as the eerie setting for Stephen King's horror film The Shining, The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado typically offers regular haunted tours and has been rumored to be haunted for a long time. Thanks to YouTube, you can virtually walk through the space while listening to a relaxing yet creepy tune. You can also see inside the most mysterious room 217 here.

Newspaper editor Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana built this French Renaissance-style mansion back in 1914 in Portland, Oregon. When they died a few years later, the mansion remained in the family until it was decided that it would be sold in 1958. When a storm hit in 1962, it caused a lot of damage to the mansion. Developers wanted to demolish the place, but the community stepped in to pay for it and turn it into the historic site it is today. Some say Henry's and Georgiana's spirits still linger. Take the 3D tour here.

While this museum typically offers a dramatic look at the Salem Witch trials of 1692 with the use of sets and lighting, you can still tour the witchcraft trial sites in and around Boston that played important roles in the events that took place. From witch houses to cemeteries, take a look here.

Prefer vampires to ghosts? Tour Dracula's Transylvania lair—aka this castle in Bran, Romania. After you view all of the video tours and sift through photos, you can dive deep into the history of the fictitious character.

Yes, a few actual murders happened in this house, and they're technically still unsolved to this day. In case you're unaware, Andrew Borden and his second wife Abby were murdered with an axe in their Fall River, Massachusetts home in 1892. One of their daughters, Lizzie, was tried for and acquitted of the gruesome murders, but many still believe she committed the crimes. Now, people say Andrew, Abby, and Lizzie all haunt the house. You can virtually tour the home here and here.

Once home to many criminals including Al Capone, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia used to be the most famous and expensive prison in the world. It now stands in ruin with crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. You can explore its haunting halls and see how the building has changed over time through the former prison's online tours here and here.

Many ghost hunters have explored this ship that's now docked in Long Beach, California. They've specifically searched stateroom B340 (which, FYI, you can stay overnight in!). Records of paranormal activity in the room date back to 1967 with complaints of someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night. You can explore the ship and learn more about its ghosts through videos on its YouTube page along with info on its website.

Every hotel has a morgue, right? Once dubbed America's most haunted hotel, the Crescent Hotel and Spa located in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is full of guests who checked out but never actually left. In-person ghost tours are a staple of the place, but you can get the experience from the comfort of your couch through YouTube.