Haunted things to do in Houston
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Houston? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — La Carafe, Founders Memorial Park (Old City Cemetery), William Marsh Rice's Grave (Founder's Memorial Statue) 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 Houston they'd never find on their own.
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La Carafe
Houston's oldest bar sits inside its oldest building — a former 1860 bakery lit almost entirely by dripping w…
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Founders Memorial Park (Old City Cemetery)
Houston's very first cemetery, opened 1836, where 1850s yellow fever and cholera epidemics killed people fast…
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William Marsh Rice's Grave (Founder's Memorial Statue)
The seated bronze statue of William Marsh Rice in the university's Academic Quad isn't just a monument — his…
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Julia Ideson Building
This 1926 Spanish Renaissance library still houses the city's archives — and the legend of Jacob Frank Cramer…
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Elder Street Artist Lofts (former Jefferson Davis Hospital)
Houston's 1924 charity hospital was built directly atop the 1840s City Cemetery, where thousands of Civil War…
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College Memorial Park Cemetery
Founded in 1896 as the burial ground for formerly enslaved residents of Freedmen's Town, this five-acre cemet…