Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Fairmont Hotel is an impressive building located in downtown Vancouver. Built in 1939, it would seem a bit, well, new to have a ghost, but it does.

A woman in a red dress wanders the corridors of the 14th floor. At times, the elevator will stop at that floor when nobody has pushed the button - on either side.

A more startling apparition is that of a former employee, a banquet porter who hanged himself in the stairwell of the 19th floor. When he appears, he isn't ... all there. Only the upper half of his body appears; not his legs. The meeting rooms are located on this floor, and on one occasion, an overnight chef went upstairs to get a few things from the kitchen.

The chef is no longer working at the Fairmont; the ghost of the porter appeared to him - looking straight at him - and then disappeared.

The Algonquin Hotel, New York City, United States

The Algonquin has a rich literary history. Famous wits of the post-World War I era used it as their stomping grounds - Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx, George S. Kaufman, Charles MacArthur, and more.

The hotel has another claim to fame in the fact that it is haunted. The Vicious Circle, as they called themselves, have been seen on more than one occasion in their favorite watering hole. Guests have experienced strange phenomena in the elevator, when the doors open at floors to reveal no one waiting for it. A photo of Dorothy Parker once fell to the floor, breaking the glass.

Non-guests can try their luck at ghost-spotting by taking one of the hotel's "Round Table" tours.