Australian Dark Tourism Locations

Discover Australia’s most chilling dark tourism destinations — abandoned prisons, haunted landmarks, and true crime history revealed.

Z-Ward

Adelaide, South Australia

Z Ward is one of Australia’s most infamous former asylums, where visitors today report chilling encounters, unexplained whispers and fleeting shadow figures in its darkened corridors.

Geelong Gaol

Geelong, Victoria

Geelong Gaol stands as one of Victoria’s most notorious former prisons, where condemned cells and execution yards now echo with tales of restless spirits.

Mayday Hills

Mayday Hills is a vast former psychiatric asylum where abandoned wards, echoing corridors and treatment rooms have given rise to chilling reports of whispers, shadows and unexplained activity.

Beechworth, Victoria

Werribee Park Homestead

Werribee, Victoria

A grand 19th-century estate where opulent rooms and sweeping corridors now carry whispers of lingering presences, unexplained footsteps and uneasy energy after dark.

Black Rock House

Black Rock, Victoria

Black Rock House, one of Melbourne’s oldest seaside homes, carries lingering tales of unexplained footsteps, sudden cold spots and the mysterious presence of “Annie,” whose spirit is said to remain.