Like your vacation with a side of ghoulishness? Wyoming might be your next stop.

Move over, Salem. There’s a new dark tourism destination staking its claim—and it’s less kitsch, more cold steel.

If the rise in murder podcasts has taught us anything, it's that we have an insatiable appetite for the darker aspects of human nature. And thus the rise in "dark tourism," a travel trend that finds vacationers looking to check off some of the most famously wrong places in history.

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Enter Carbon County, a rugged stretch of southern Wyoming positioning itself as the West’s hub for true, unfiltered frontier history.

The centerpiece is the Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins, a hulking stone facility that opened in 1901 during the railroad boom. Built to house train robbers, cattle rustlers and other outlaws of the era, it once held associates of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. Today, much of the prison remains hauntingly intact. Visitors can walk the original cell blocks, step inside the execution chamber and follow the stark path to the cemetery where inmates were buried.

For those who prefer their history after nightfall, the prison also hosts overnight paranormal investigations, leaning into its reputation as one of the region’s most unsettling landmarks. Cemetery walks trace nearly a century of incarceration, the stories etched quite literally in stone.

But the county’s macabre appeal doesn’t end at prison walls. The Carbon County Museum houses artifacts tied to “Big Nose” George Parrott, an infamous outlaw whose 19th-century execution became one of the most gruesome episodes of frontier justice. (Let’s just say the souvenirs from that case are not your standard museum fare.)

About 40 miles northeast, the Hanna Basin Museum preserves the memory of some of the deadliest mining disasters in American history. The coal boom that powered the expansion of the Union Pacific Railroad came at a steep human cost, and the region’s abandoned mine sites and nearby ghost towns tell that story in sobering detail.

Together, these stops form what local boosters have dubbed a “Dark History Trail,” a journey through prisons, cemeteries, mining ruins and wind-scoured towns that once pulsed with frontier ambition. Here, history is as stark as when it was being made a few centuries ago. And if a spooky selfie isn't cutting it anymore, Wyoming’s high plains might just be the next frontier.