5 creepy museum experiences across the United States

Museums come in all shapes and sizes, with a seemingly endless variety of content and genres. They can be art, natural history, pop culture, and so much more. Being that a museum can be designed to accommodate virtually anything, they can also get a little creepy.

Across the United States, you can find museums filled with a variety of oddities and unsettling subjects. And there’s no better time to get out there and experience them than in the month of October, the spookiest month of the year. Well, except for March. That month is just plain weird.

The Morbid Anatomy Museum

Every once in a while, a name tells you exactly what you’re in for when you walk through the doors of something new. And with a name like the Morbid Anatomy Museum, you know that you’re about to experience something incredibly interesting.

Right at home in Brooklyn, New York, this museum actually started off as a blog and evolved into so much more. It has various exhibits, classes, and performances not to mention it now includes a library. But you have to be there to experience the creepiness.

The 1692 Salem Witch Museum

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is one of the most infamous periods in the history of the United States. More than 200 hundred people were accused of being witches with 30 convicted and 19 of them were ultimately executed.

Not surprisingly, the 1692 Salem Witch Museum is located in Salem, Massachusetts. It involves a number of ways to learn about the realities of this era. But even with all of the learning opportunities offered, you can’t escape the unsettling feeling in your stomach when you think about what happened.

Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum

Located in Las Vegas, Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum is an incredibly unique stop in Sin City. For those who don’t know, Zak is a paranormal investigator who is best known as the primary host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures.

His Vegas museum is located in a building that’s reputed to be haunted by the spirits of the family of the businessman who built it. Now, it’s filled with artifacts and exhibits related to Zak’s many paranormal adventures over the years. That alongside the ghosts certainly won’t make this an incredibly unsettling experience.

National Museum of Funeral History

This is a museum that is not intended to be creepy in the least. But given the subject matter of the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas, it’s honestly unavoidable. Thinking about funerals is something that a lot of people certainly are not comfortable with and this is a place that’s unlikely to improve that issue.

It contains 16 permanent exhibits examining different aspects of the funeral industry. On top of that, there are a variety of special exhibits that rotate and take deep dives into other topics. This is one of those spots that is both a really interesting and a really weird place to spend time.

The Museum of Death

Again, this is a museum that tells you exactly what you’re in for before you step one foot inside. This is literally the Museum of Death. There are two locations, one in New Orleans and one in Hollywood. That being said, the one Hollywood is temporarily closed during its relocation.

This place runs the gamut of death-related paraphernalia. That includes serial killer artwork, pet death taxidermy, Mason Family artifacts, and so very much more. Admittedly, this might not be for everyone but for anyone interested in death it’s certainly a unique experience.