Haunted things to do in Philadelphia
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Philadelphia? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art), Fort Mifflin, Grumblethorpe 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 Philadelphia they'd never find on their own.
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PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art)
A former mausoleum-and-tombstone showroom (the historic Finney & Son monument building, dating to the 1850s)…
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Fort Mifflin
Built to guard the Delaware and nearly leveled by a week-long 1777 British bombardment that killed dozens of…
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Grumblethorpe
British Brigadier General James Agnew was carried into this 1744 stone farmhouse after being shot during the…
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Pennhurst Asylum
This is not a themed set — it's the actual campus of the Pennhurst State School, shut down in 1987 after the…
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Duffy's Cut Memorial
A roadside Pennsylvania historical marker over an unmarked mass grave: 57 Irish immigrant rail workers, newly…
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The Woodlands
A ~54-acre Victorian "rural cemetery" wrapped around a Federal-style mansion (built 1770 on an estate the Ham…