13. Netherworld- Atlanta, Georgia: Known for its over the top special effects, gory makeup and dramatic costumes, the monsters in this award winning haunted house is bound to scare the sh*t out of you.

12. The Beast — Kansas City, Missouri: This 4 floored haunted house boasts in providing a 4-sensory experience (sight, sound, smell and touch). Watch out for the live alligator!

11. The Dent School House — Cincinnati, Ohio: This school got shut down in the 1940s when the janitor started murdering the students and hid the bodies in the basement- they now haunt the visitors…

10. Asylum 49 — Tooele, Utaha: Its FAQ warns that “you can be touched, grabbed, separated from your group, detained in small dark areas and left, strapped to a metal bed and worked on by the crazies.” Not thanks!

9. Haunted Plantation — Oahu, Hawaii: This isn’t just a single haunted house- it’s an entire haunted village! Beware of the creepy dolls and even creepier faceless creatures.

8. House of Shock — Jefferson, Louisiana: Even the Rolling Stone recommends this terrifying attraction that pays a homage to the dark history of New Orleans and even features an exhibition of carnival freaks.

7. Georgetown Morgue — Seattle, Washington: An actual morgue, it holds what is considered to be the most terrifying unsolved crime in Seattle history- nine of their staff were forced into the crematorium chamber. There were no surviving witnesses, nor were suspects ever identified. It’s website invites you to “wander below at your own risk to see if you can escape the body strewn sewers and private janitorial quarters of the KUBE 93 Haunted House.”

6. Erebus — Pontiac, Michigan: Inspired by the Greek underworld, Erebus translates to “a place of darkness in the underworld on the way to Hades.”

5. Hotel of Horror — Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania: With scary new themes every year, the Hotel of Horror even offer a coffin ride that “takes you on your own afterlife experience and back again.”

4. Pennhurst Asylum — Spring City, Pennsylvania: Once a care home for the Feeble Minded and Epyleptic, the mental asylum was shut down in 1984 for patient abuse. It now welcomes visitors to “wander through the dormitory, left just as it was 26 years ago, and search for spirits on their own.”

3. Nightmare on 13th Haunted House — Salt Lake City, Utah: Every year, this popular haunted house has an entirely new theme a.k.a. nightmare. This year to celebrate 25 years of fear, they resurrecting and perfecting the BEST from the past, while creating never before seen horrors to terrify your soul.

2. Frightworld Scream Park — Buffalo, New York: This haunted attraction includes not one, not two, but FIVE insane haunted houses you can experience, including a rustic, isolated cabin teeming with bloody victims and an old, abandoned asylum on a remote road.

1. McKamey Manor- San Diego, California: Described as the world’s scariest haunted house, this interactive experience has over 24,000 people on the waiting list, which regularly reduces grown men to tears. Participants have been tied up, had their heads forced into a cage of snakes, eaten rotten eggs and have even been gagged- all of it which is filmed so they can relive the horror. Yikes!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!