Haunted things to do in Denver

Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Denver? These 32 are the genuinely strange ones — Oxford Hotel Room 320, Rocky Mountain Land Library at the Puritan Pie Co., Cassady's — Neal Cassady's Barbershop Site, 2558 Champa St. and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Denver they'd never find on their own.

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Oxford Hotel Room 320 The Oxford is the city's grand old 1891 hotel, but almost no one books knowing what 320 is. In 1898 a woman s… LoDo
Rocky Mountain Land Library at the Puritan Pie Co. A 1911 building that used to crank out pies for the Senter Pie Company is now stuffed with one of the strange… Curtis Park
Cassady's — Neal Cassady's Barbershop Site, 2558 Champa St. A 400-square-foot shack wedged between two houses on Champa was once a two-chair barbershop where a young Nea… Curtis Park
Cheesman Park Pavilion & Its Buried Dead Cheesman Park looks like any leafy Denver green space, but it was the city's first cemetery — and when it was… Cheesman Park
Highland Park / Scottish Village Historic District Denver is a relentless grid until you turn off Zuni near 32nd and the streets suddenly start curving, with na… Highlands
Manhattan Beach Historical Marker Thousands of people loop Sloan's Lake every week and walk straight past a 1953 bronze plaque bolted to the no… Sloan's Lake
Riverside Cemetery History & Mystery Tours Denver's oldest cemetery (1876) sits forgotten on 77 acres of dry, overgrown ground in Globeville — National… Globeville
National Wildlife Property Repository Tucked inside the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge sits a 16,000-square-foot federal warehouse… Commerce City
Riverside Cemetery Block 12 — Denver's Forgotten Potters Field Riverside is Denver's oldest operating cemetery (1876) and a National Historic District, but almost no one kn… Elyria-Swansea / Adams County border
Historic Elitch Theatre Everyone thinks 'Elitch' means the Six Flags coaster park on the Platte — almost no one knows the original 18… Highland / West Highland (38th & Tennyson)
Lumber Baron Inn & Gardens This ornate 1890 Queen Anne looks like any restored Highland mansion, but by 1970 it was a carved-up flophous… Potter-Highlands / Highland
John Chivington's Grave at Fairmount Cemetery Fairmount is Denver's beautiful Victorian garden cemetery — heritage roses, a Gothic chapel, pioneer notables… Montclair / East Denver
Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site — Where 'The Changeling' Was Born (Now Summer House Condos) Stand at 13th & Williams and you're on the footprint of a vanished mansion that birthed a horror classic. In… Cheesman Park
Riverside Cemetery — Neglected Pioneer Cemetery Losing Its Dead to Industrial Decay Hemmed in by rail yards, industrial lots, and the roar of I-70, Denver's oldest operating cemetery is quietly… Elyria-Swansea / Adams County border
Riverside Cemetery Denver's oldest operating cemetery (1876) got swallowed by the city it served — today it's boxed in by indust… Swansea / Brighton Boulevard corridor, Denver
Fairmount Cemetery Arboretum & Heritage Rose Garden This is Colorado's largest and most diverse arboretum — over 4,000 trees and shrubs first planted in 1890 by… East Denver (near Aurora border)
Castlewood Canyon Lucas Homestead Ruins Most people drive out to Castlewood Canyon for the collapsed-dam ruins, never realizing a second, weirder rui… Franktown (Douglas County)
Tower of Memories Drive past Crown Hill Cemetery on Wadsworth and you'll see a 158-foot Gothic tower most people assume is off-… Wheat Ridge
Alferd Packer's Grave Colorado's only convicted cannibal is buried in plain sight in a front row of Littleton Cemetery, marked with… Littleton
Cold War Horse On a lonely stretch of Highway 72 northwest of Denver, a life-size horse stands in an electric-red hazmat sui… Arvada / Rocky Flats
Scileppi's at the Old Stone Church Scileppi's is a family-owned Italian restaurant operating since 2018 inside an 1888 rhyolite-stone Catholic c… Castle Rock
B&B Cafe The B&B Cafe has anchored downtown Castle Rock since 1946, and two bullet holes — one in the pressed-tin ceil… Castle Rock
Castlewood Canyon Dam Ruins The crumbling concrete shell of the 1890 Castlewood Dam still stands in two massive broken halves, the gap be… Franktown
Cantril School House This 1897 Roman-arched stone schoolhouse — a National Register of Historic Places landmark purchased by the T… Castle Rock
The Estemere The Estemere is a genuine 1887 Queen Anne Victorian mansion — 18 rooms, seven fireplaces, a billiard room wit… Palmer Lake
Lafayette Vampire Grave (Fodor Glava) Teodor "Fodor" Glava, a Transylvanian coal miner who died in the 1918 flu pandemic, was buried here and becam… Lafayette
Dickens Opera House Built in 1881, this lovingly restored Victorian opera house is Longmont's most famously haunted landmark — em… Longmont
Argo Mill & Tunnel The Argo Mill & Tunnel is a massive, five-level gold-processing mill clinging to the Idaho Springs hillside —… Idaho Springs
Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave Perched atop Lookout Mountain, Buffalo Bill Cody's hilltop grave has been a locus of genuine historical intri… Golden
Knights of Pythias Cemetery A small, atmospheric hilltop cemetery belonging to the secretive Knights of Pythias fraternal order, where so… Black Hawk
Mount Falcon 'Summer White House' Ruins At the end of Walker's Dream Trail sits a marble cornerstone and foundation — all that remains of John Brisbe… Morrison
Central City Masonic Cemetery (Woman in Black) This 1860s gold-rush-era cemetery sits atop a knoll overlooking the mountain towns of Central City and Black… Black Hawk