The World's Creepiest Hotels

And why you should stay in them.

- Dilvin Yasa

Desperate for a haunted room, prison experience or the chance to live out your worst-case horror scenarios? With these properties you can check in anytime you like, but you can never, ever leave…

THE CLOWN MOTEL

NEVADA, USA

Psychologists have long maintained exposure therapy to be one of the most successful ways of getting over a fear or phobia. Got a ’90s Stephen King’s It hangover (and don’t we all)? Check into The Clown Motel, located at the halfway point between Reno and Vegas, and give yourself over to the joys of sleeping in a room decorated floor to ceiling with hundreds of menacing clown figurines, dolls and posters—each sinister character seemingly waiting for you to go to sleep so that they can come alive and put your head on a stick for fun. Making your stay just that little bit more enjoyable, the hotel also shares the same lot as an abandoned graveyard. Inexplicably, the hotel tends to book out so reserve your clown–themed room (priced from $34) well in advance through the hotel’s Facebook page.

GRAND HYATT HOTEL

TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN