Haunted things to do in Los Angeles
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Los Angeles? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Pico House at El Pueblo, Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge) 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 Los Angeles they'd never find on their own.
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Founded in 1899 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this is the resting place of Rudolph…
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Pico House at El Pueblo
Built in 1870 by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, this Italianate-Victorian pile was t…
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Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge)
Opened in 1913 as the highest concrete bridge in the world, this Beaux-Arts span of eleven sweeping arches ri…
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Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum (El Campo Santo)
A genuine hidden gem the Smithsonian called one of California's true historic treasures, this free museum cen…
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The Queen Mary
The retired 1936 ocean liner is permanently moored in Long Beach harbor and is one of the most investigated h…
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Old LA Zoo, Griffith Park
The original Los Angeles Zoo opened in 1912 and was simply abandoned in place when the new zoo opened in 1966…
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Bronson Caves (the Batcave)
A short man-made tunnel carved into the rock wall of an abandoned early-1900s quarry, the Bronson Caves have…
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Desert Christ Park
Sculptor Antone Martin spent 1951 to 1961 installing snow-white concrete figures of Christ and biblical scene…