The name says it all. In the late 1800s in Chicago, Dr. H.H. Holmes, born Herman Mudgett, built and operated a hotel that would later be dubbed the "murder castle" by law enforcement agents. Holmes was a lifelong cheat, swindler and fraud artist -- in medical school he took out insurance claims on cadavers and mangled the corpses to look like they were accident victims. Shortly before the 1893 World's Fair, which was hosted in Chicago, Holmes built a 60-room hotel in the Chicago suburb of Englewood. Holmes was the architect, and the hotel housed many bizarre features -- doors that led to nothing, rooms without windows, trap doors and hidden passageways.

When Holmes opened the hotel up for business, guests got more than they bargained for. For four years, Holmes held various guests prisoner, tortured and killed them. He is known as America's first serial killer, admitting to 28 murders,

Lovely, I know.

It would be fun to stay in one of these - with a bunch of friends and lots of lights. And nobody goes anywhere alone.

Some might be interesting to stay in but I don't think I could handle the last one.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. Then before she was done she gave her father 41.

yes, but she was never convicted

I would have heart attack!!great reading ,CHEERS Clippy