Our Off the Wall Bucket List
Welcome to our haunted, obscure & quirky bucket list, which has been an ongoing journey for many years. It is a never ending work in progress, continuously being altered & updated – much like ourselves!
It is our hope that you use these bucket list ideas as inspiration to create your spooky/weird bucket list. And that you take steps with us to keep crossing items off this year (and in the year to come!) This bucket list has completely changed our lives and we wish the same for you!
Unique Bucket List Ideas:
Haunted, Obscure & Quirky
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Haunted
These haunted locations all over the world are tops on our bucket list!
1. Get Married at Fairfield County Infirmary – Completed 10/13/2022
2. Sit in the most haunted jail cell at Brushy Mountain State Penn in TN
3. Walk the cell blocks of Alcatraz in CA
4. Spend the night in a tent on Blennerhasset Island in Marietta, Ohio
5. Investigate Sweet Springs Sanatarium & Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in the same weekend
6. Investigate and Sleep overnight at Billie Creek in Rockville, IN- In Progress
7. Wander & Investigate the massive complex of Cresson Sanatorium
8. Spend the Night at the Wilson Castle in VT
9. Spend the Night at the Franklin Castle in OH, this one has been on the list since I was a child.
10. Investigate the Collingwood Art Center in OH
11. Remember the patients of Letchworth Village in NY
12. Sit in the Sugar Shack at West Virginia Penitentiary (Moundsville)- Completed 2022
13. Visit Battle Ship Island in Japan – this is actually closer to my #1 pick besides our marriage of course.
14. Investigate the House of Wills in OH
15. Spend the Night and Investigate the grounds of the Landoll’s Mohican Castle in OH
16. The Ridges Indoor Tour and Grounds Tour in OH
17. Investigate the Shanley Hotel in NY
18. Investigate Sorg Opera House in OH – Completed 2023
19. Explore Poveglia Island in Italy with Mysterious Adventures Tours
20. Pretend we’re old timey criminals and get locked up at the Squirrel Cage Jail in IA
21. Spend the night in a floating house then Get scared out of our minds at Hales Bar and Dam
22. Investigate Pennhurst Asylum in PA
23. Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary in Stateroom B340
24. Sleep in a haunted room at the Punderson Manor
25. Have a terrifying weekend at Old South Pittsburg Hospital and Old Harriman Hospital the next night in TN
26. Try to sleep at the terrifying Ancient Ram Inn in the UK
27. Get a brick thrown at us at the Goldfield Hotel in NV
28. Have a clown stare at us in our sleep at the Clown Motel, NV
29. Investigate the USS North Carolina Battleship in NC
30. Investigate the Edinburgh Manor, IA
31. Brave the Island of the Dolls in Mexico
32. Investigate the Nazareth Hospital & Sanatorium in Mineral Wells, TX
33. Hear the laugh of the little girl at Ashmore Estates
34. Mid Orange Correctional Institute in NY
35. Norwich State Hospital
36. Walk the Underground Tunnel and Investigate Pennhurst
37. Yorktown Memorial Hospital in TX
38. Saratoga County Homestead in NY
39. Randolph County in IN
40. Rolling Hills Asylum in NY
Obscure
These are the off-the-beaten-path spots. They could be weird, random or totally a secret!
1. Visit Secret Pizza in Las Vegas, NV – Completed 2019
2. The Haunted House Restaurant
3. Buckland Witch Museum
4. Cleveland Curiosities
5. (Abandoned) Dinosaur World in AK
6. (Abandoned) New Manchester Mill, Lithia, GA filming spot for Hunger Games
7. (Abandoned) Salton Sea, CA
8. Cleveland Underground Tour
9. Bannerman Castle in NY
10. Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park in MI
11. RIP Tour at Universal Studios, FL
12. Tour the Sloss Furnace in AL
13. Tour the Zak’s Haunted Museum in NV – Completed 2019
Quirky
These places are fun, cute or just downright silly! (quirky!)
1. Spend the Night in the Beagle
2. Visit the Pez Visitor’s Center in CT