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Savannah, Georgia
Originally three separate residences that burned in 1820, the 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant was rebuilt as a single building in 1821 on…
Independence, Missouri
The 1859 Jail, Marshal's Home and Museum in Independence housed prisoners until 1933 and held Frank James, brother of Jesse James, for…
Oracle, Arizona
Edwin and Lillian Dodge built this adobe ranch house in Oracle in 1882 as a boarding house, and by the turn of the century it was taking in…
Bethany Beach, Delaware
Pittsburgh plumber John Addy built the Addy-Sea in 1902 as a family home — the first building in town wired for gaslight and plumbed…
Yosemite, California
Guests and staff at the Ahwahnee have told of the presence of Mary Curry Tresidder, daughter of Camp Curry's founders, on the sixth floor,…
San Antonio, Texas
The Alamo, founded in 1718 as the San Antonio de Valero mission, is where Texas defenders held out for 13 days before the Mexican army…
New Haven, Connecticut
McAuliffe Hall - Is indeed haunted by a small boy and woman in green is possibly true but she is believed to haunt the front staircase, and…
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz operated as a federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963. Its bloodiest episode was the Battle of Alcatraz, from May 2 to 4, 1946: an…
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
All Saints Waccamaw Church on Pawleys Island has the grave of Alice Flagg, a flat stone marked only "ALICE" under a large oak. The…
Death Valley Junction, California
Guests at the Amargosa Hotel describe a child crying at night in Room 24 when no children are staying, strange activity in Room 22,…
Andersonville, Georgia
Camp Sumter, the Confederacy's largest and most notorious prisoner-of-war camp, operated here from February 1864 to May 1865. Built for…
Animas Forks, Colorado
Animas Forks was established in 1875 at 11,200 feet in the San Juan Mountains, between present-day Silverton and Lake City, and grew…
Dugger, Indiana
Established in 1829 and formally incorporated in 1873, Antioch Cemetery sits about two miles north of Dugger; many of those buried here…
Moundsville, West Virginia
The Archive of the Afterlife in Moundsville, opened in 2012 by Steve Hummel and now housed in the Sanford Center, bills itself as the…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Armstrong Mansion, a Victorian house built in 1893 by Francis Armstrong for his wife Isabel, was long a social hub of Salt Lake City…
Ashcroft, Colorado
Ashcroft began in 1880 as a silver camp eleven miles up the Castle Creek valley from Aspen, and briefly rivaled its now-famous neighbor…
Galveston, Texas
Ashton Villa, an Italianate mansion on Galveston's Broadway, was built in 1859 for businessman James Moreau Brown and is one of the grand…
Fort Collins, Colorado
Franklin Avery, the surveyor who laid out Fort Collins's original street grid, built this house for his family in 1879. It was a private…
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion in Altoona was built in the 1840s for iron master Elias Baker and is now a museum of the Blair County Historical Society.…
Rye, Colorado
In the late summer of 1779, New Mexico's Spanish governor, Juan Bautista de Anza, led roughly 600 soldiers south from Santa Fe, joined…
Eustis, Florida
Eustis's 518-seat State Theatre opened as a vaudeville house in 1922, with one of the largest photo-play pipe organs in the Southeast, and…
Bellaire, Florida
Railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant built the Belleview Biltmore in 1897, and it grew into one of Florida's grandest Gilded Age resorts, added…
Tombstone, Arizona
The Grand Hotel opened on this spot in September 1880 as Tombstone's most luxurious lodging, and lost its upper floor to the fire that…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Bijou Theatre on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville is one of the city's oldest buildings, with roots in an early hotel that became a…