648 places found

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…

Rugby, Tennessee
The Newbury House is a restored 1880 inn in Historic Rugby that still takes overnight guests. The most chilling story tells of a man who…

Honolulu, Hawaii
Built in 1930-31 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, this building served as the Honolulu Police Station before being taken over by the…

Stockbridge, Georgia
The Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House, built around 1830, is one of the oldest surviving houses in Rockdale County and stands at the…

Atlantic City, New Jersey
Absecon Lighthouse, completed in 1857, is New Jersey's tallest lighthouse and was built after the wreck of the Powhatan in 1854, in which…

Cutler, Indiana
Adams Mill, built in 1845 to 1846 on Wildcat Creek northeast of Cutler, is a three-and-a-half-story frame grist mill that ground grain…

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…

Fryeburg, Maine
The Admiral Peary Inn is a seven-room bed and breakfast in an 1860s house on Elm Street in Fryeburg, once the home of Arctic explorer…

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,…

Birmingham, Alabama
Built in 1927 as a movie palace for Paramount, the Alabama Theatre is one of downtown Birmingham's grandest buildings. Stanleigh Malotte…

Juneau, Alaska
The Alaskan opened on September 16, 1913, and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Alaska, listed on the National Register of…

Albertville, Alabama
Albertville Public Library carries a reputation among staff for a scattering of small, unexplained happenings. Workers say the elevator…

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…

Allerton Park, Illinois
Robert Allerton (1873-1964) built this mansion and its formal gardens starting in 1899, later donating the estate to the University of…

Alliance, Nebraska
The building that houses the Alliance Theatre began as the Charter Hotel in 1903 and became a movie theater in 1938. Nebraska tourism and…

Alton, New Hampshire
Alton Town Hall is a red-brick municipal building from 1894 with a clock tower on Monument Square. New Hampshire haunted-places lists…

Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amelia Gayle Gorgas, widow of the Confederate ordnance chief and later university president Josiah Gorgas, became the University of…

Kohler, Wisconsin
The American Club in Kohler was built in 1918 to house immigrant workers for the Kohler Company and is now a luxury resort and Historic…

Dawsonville, Georgia
Amicalola takes its name from the Cherokee word for "tumbling waters," describing the 729-foot waterfall the park was built around. The…

New Orleans, Louisiana
Guests at the Andrew Jackson Hotel report hearing children playing in the hallways and in their rooms, finding belongings moved and TVs…

Winter Park, Florida
Opened in 1932 at Rollins College and the longest continuously operating theater in Florida, this Italian Romanesque Revival building was…

St. Charles, Illinois
Built in 1926 by local philanthropists Dellora and Lester Norris and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Arcada…

Justice, Illinois
Archer Woods Cemetery, along Chicago's famously haunted Archer Avenue corridor, served for years as a potter's field for the area's unknown…

Seattle, Washington
The Arctic Building, completed in 1917 as a club for gold-rush Alaskans and known for the walrus heads on its facade, is now a hotel. Its…