Guggenheim Airship Institute Haunted House, Ohio

The Guggenheim Airship Institute, was established in 1929 on the edge of the airport at Akron, to study lighter-than-air engineering for the large rigid airships being built at that time. It was operated in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, and had laboratories and test facilities that included a vertical wind tunnel. By the 1970s the building was shuttered, and was later taken over by a haunted house company that converted it into a Haunted Lab, a new use that has outlived the building’s original function.