Though the real-life House of the Seven Gables has no such history, the legacy of the curse — and according to some, a few 17th-century apparitions — lives on.

Not all haunted houses exist in ghost stories. From the Winchester Mansion in California to the Sallie House in Kansas, here are the real spooky abodes you can visit or stay the night.

The restaurant is housed in the 230-year-old historic Demarest-Lyle House residence, the oldest house in Tenafly, New Jersey, and it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

With the Halloween season upon us, I undertook a most spooky assignment: recommending real haunted houses that you can actually visit in almost every state.