Would you crawl through a crematorium oven?

Monsters from the deep: The 40,000 square-foot house  features a dragon’s lair, bottomless pits, traps, a Swamp and a giant beehive

Now a definitive list of the 13 most  skin-crawling haunted houses lays out the most horrifying spots to visit if you  want to experience true terror.

Topping the list by website hauntworld.com is the 13th Gate in LA, where visitors must crawl through a burning  crematory  oven and feel their way through a dim, snake-infested cave.

At Netherworld in Atlanta, defenceless  tourists will encounter a wailing  banshee, a crawling eye and a sunken city  that rises towards the skies.

The brilliantly named Cutting Edge in Texas  is built on the gruesome  location of a meat-packing plant while Ohio invites  foolhardy  holidaymakers to The Dent Schoolhouse, which was shut down in the  1950s  after a homicidal janitor who lived in the basement was  caught.

In Houston, you can check out Texas’s oldest  graveyard at Nightmare on the Bayou,where  crazed actors, Hollywood quality props and lifelike animatronics  combine to  create one of weirdest and most frightening spots in the  States.

So take a trip on a mind-bending hayride,  dodge repulsive monsters and fend off vicious  beasts as you tiptoe your way  through this jitter-inducing maze.

Tread carefully.

Spine-tingling sightings: Nightmare on the Bayou, which  stands beside a Texan graveyard, claims to be ‘the only haunted house in Houston  with REAL ghosts’

Hell boy: Eerie sights abound at Nightmare on the Bayou  – and visitors and employees will testify to its sickeningly real selections of  horrors