haunted houses

If you want your heart to race like never before this Halloween, look no further than these 5 spine-tingling attractions.

It features a haunted house, the "twisted labyrinth," a condemned mine trail, and a haunted hayride through the forest, plus two brand-new “adrenaline rooms.”

Checking out haunted attractions is definitely a tradition for many this time of year. Luckily for us in New York, we have one that gets recognition nationally.

If the haunted experiences at Cayo in Rome and the New York State Fair in Syracuse are just not quite scary enough, you might want to take a road trip south.

Halloween is coming up, and we all know what that means: Christmas stuff starts showing up in stores any minute now. Also, on Halloween weekend, we'll be going to lots of haunted houses, haunted garages, haunted mazes, haunted cul-de-sacs and haunted, well, anything you can stick a light-up ghost on. But ...

There's a chill in the air, brandy is slowly edging out rum as the drink of choice, and the skin around our eyes is brutally chapped -- must be Autumn! And you know what that means -- time for some laughs courtesy of perennial favorite Nightmares Fear Factory, a haunted house in Niagara Falls with a hidden camera that takes pictures of people while they're having the crap scared out of them. Hilar

At Shocktoberfest in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania there is an attraction called the Naked and Scared Challenge, in which brave souls can go through a haunted house in the nude. Like most haunted houses, this one is dark, so you don't have to worry about people seeing if you're scared stiff (pun intended).