7 Horror Movie and TV Locations You Can Visit in Real Life

Yes, you can definitely visit the mansion from American Horror Story's iconic first season. Unfortunately, though, its history isn't quite as ghostly as the show would like you to think. In real life, the building is called the Rosenheim Mansion. It had been on the market for upwards of 15 years before it finally sold in 2015. So, maybe it's not haunted, but it's definitely more than just a house on a sound stage.

This is an apartment building called The Dakota. It stands on NYC's Upper West Side and was used as The Bramford apartment building for Rosemary's Baby. The building itself does have a dark past, but it doesn't have much to do with Satanic cults. Now, it's best known as the site of John Lennon's fatal gunshot wound.

While we can't speak to children of the devil or occult rituals, there's a different aspect of the building that's a bit supernatural. Before his death, John Lennon claimed to have seen a crying ghost lady roaming the halls. And after, Yoko Ono has claimed to see Lennon's ghost.

Sorry for the spoiler, but you need to know why the stairs are so iconic. In the height of The Exorcist's final sequence, Father Karras gets thrown from an upstairs window and tumbles down this very staircase. The site is located in Washington, DC, and it's so famous, it's been declared an official tourist site by the city. It even has its own Yelp page!

Not only is The Stanley Hotel haunted in its own right (you can sign up for your own ghost tour if you want to get all the ins and outs of its terrifying history), but it actually inspired one of the most iconic horror stories of all time: The Shining. That's right, master of horror Stephen King stayed at the hotel in 1974. As the story goes, the Kings spent the night in the hotel just before its Winter closure. King reportedly wandered the halls, drank at the bar, and even stayed in the dreaded room 217. He published The Shining three years later.

The Buckner Mansion is a real building that stands in the suburbs of New Orleans. Unfortunately, though, you won't find Miss Robichaux's Academy or any burgeoning witches inside its walls. But, hey, you can rent it out for $4,500 a night!