25 places found

Savannah, Georgia
Originally three separate residences that burned in 1820, the 17Hundred90 Inn & Restaurant was rebuilt as a single building in 1821 on…

Ellisville, Mississippi
Visitors, DAR members and local news have reported rocking chairs that rock on their own, footsteps like heavy boots walking through the…

Helena, Montana
St. Charles Hall is the oldest building on the Carroll College campus in Helena, begun in 1909 with a cornerstone laid by President William…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Helen Hunt Jackson, the writer best known for Ramona, gave her name to these falls in Cheyenne Canyon after her death in 1885; her grave…

Sacramento, California
The Delta King and her identical twin, the Delta Queen, were christened on May 20, 1927, and spent the next decade running overnight…

East Haddam, Connecticut
This 1,000-acre state park along the Eightmile River takes its name from a colonial hop farm once worked nearby, but it's known today for…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
The Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg was built in 1856 and has served as a family home, a Confederate and Union hospital during the 1863…

French Lick, Indiana
Dr. William Bowles opened a small spa here in 1845 to capitalize on the area's natural sulfur springs; by 1901, former Indianapolis mayor…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Gold Camp Road follows the grade of the old Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, abandoned and converted to a one-lane road…

Helena, Montana
Grandstreet Theatre is a granite Romanesque building in downtown Helena that opened in 1901 as a Unitarian church, later served as the…

Madison, Georgia
Built in 1811 and expanded with Greek Revival columns in the 1840s or '50s by Dr. Elijah Jones, a wealthy physician who enslaved 114 people…

Brooksville, Florida
Atlanta architect William Augustus Edwards designed this Beaux Arts courthouse, built in 1913. Local account holds that a prisoner once…

Bucksport, Maine
The granite monument to Colonel Jonathan Buck, founder of Bucksport, stands in the town cemetery and carries a stain shaped like a woman's…

Lake Worth, Florida
Brothers Clarence and Lucien Oakley built this movie palace and vaudeville house in 1924, installing a $10,000 Wurlitzer pipe organ; the…

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana's Old State Capitol is the Gothic castle-style building on the Mississippi riverfront in downtown Baton Rouge, now a museum of…

Malvern, Iowa
This three-story building was built in the 1870s as a railroad hotel for travelers passing through Malvern. By the mid-twentieth century it…

Carrollton, Alabama
The Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton burned in 1876, and suspicion fell on Henry Wells, a formerly enslaved man. When officers came…

Long Beach, California
The Queen Mary's most-reported spot is watertight door 13, in Shaft Alley — a narrow corridor deep on D Deck running beside the propeller…

Atchison, Kansas
The Sallie House in Atchison was built in the mid-1800s and is tied locally to Dr. Charles Finney. Local lore holds that a girl named…

San Francisco, California
Visitors to the San Francisco Columbarium describe being touched by unseen hands, and one reported turning to find no one behind her and a…

New Haven, Connecticut
North Campus dorms - One resident reported waking up to a massive black force hovering over his bed, constricting him, paralyzing him with…

Oak Park, Illinois
St. John's United Methodist Church, an old building with numerous upstairs rooms, has a modest set of ghost stories among its members: an…

Montevallo, Alabama
On the night of February 4, 1908, Condie Cunningham and her roommate were making hot chocolate over a chafing dish in their room in Main…

Jonesboro, Georgia
Built in 1840 by Guy L. Warren, this Federal-style home became Confederate headquarters and a field hospital during the 1864 Battle of…