This ornate mansion overlooking Victoria is full of stories. It was built in the late 1800s by wealthy Scottish immigrant Robert Dunsmuir who sadly died before his dream home was completed. After the coal baron’s wife also died, the grand building served as a military hospital in 1919 and later as a college and music conservatory.

Naturally, the National Historic Site is completely haunted. From a lone woman standing in the ballroom and children running down hallways to a piano that plays by itself, spine-tingling sightings abound.

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