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Ashmore, Illinois
This building traces back to the Coles County Poor Farm, established in 1857 to house the area's poor, elderly, and mentally ill; the…
Augusta, Georgia
Sisters Emily and Lucy Galt etched their names and the date, 1861, into a window at Bellevue Hall using Emily's engagement ring before her…
Decatur, Illinois
Opened in 1916, the Avon Theatre became the life's work of Greek immigrant Gust Konstantopoulos, who ran it for five decades. Even after…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Baker Peters Jazz Club in West Knoxville occupies a two-story Greek Revival house built in 1840 by Dr. James Harvey Baker, a local…
Tracy, California
The Banta Inn was built in 1879 by Frank Gallegos — reputed to have ridden with Joaquín Murrieta — as a two-storey saloon and sporting…
Adairsville, Georgia
English cotton merchant Godfrey Barnsley bought 8,000 acres of former Cherokee land in the 1840s to build this estate, though his wife…
Hanford, California
Built in 1897 to a design by San Francisco's McDougall Brothers, the turreted Kings County Jail and sheriff's office served until 1964,…
Ouray, Colorado
The Beaumont Hotel opened in Ouray on December 15, 1886, built for $75,000 by the Ouray Real Estate and Building Association. It has hosted…
Newport, Rhode Island
Belcourt Castle on Bellevue Avenue is a 60-room Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s for Oliver…
Valdosta, Georgia
Built around the turn of the 20th century, this house is named for Dr. David S. Bell, a traveling medicine man who sold tonics and potions…
Adams, Tennessee
The Bell Witch is Tennessee's most famous haunting, a legend from the early 1800s in which the family of the farmer John Bell of Adams was…
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…
Wilmington, Delaware
Philadelphia wool merchant Hanson Robinson built this estate as a summer retreat, originally called Woolton Hall. William du Pont bought it…
Stansbury Park, Utah
The Benson Grist Mill is a pioneer-era mill over 150 years old, with a blacksmith shop and cabin. Ghost Adventures investigated in 2021,…
Mattoon, Illinois
Bethel Cemetery, between Mattoon and Neoga in Coles County, is better known locally as the Ragdoll Cemetery. The legend, told in several…
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…
Birdsville, Georgia
At Birdsville Plantation, visitors and caretakers describe children's laughter at night and doors that open and close on their own.…
Custer, South Dakota
The Black Hills Playhouse, in the pines of Custer State Park, is a summer theater that has staged productions since 1946 in a complex built…
Norfolk, Connecticut
Built in 1763 as the Moseley House-Farm, this colonial mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. A network of…
Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida East Coast Railway engineer William T. Jones built this neoclassical and Georgian-style home in 1909 using a $6,000 railroad injury…
Traverse City, Michigan
Bowers Harbor Inn on the Old Mission Peninsula began as a summer home built in the 1880s by the Chicago lumberman Joseph W. Stickney and…
Golden, Colorado
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave stands on Lookout Mountain above Golden, where William F. Cody is buried. Visitors have reported a woman…
Woodstock, Illinois
Built in 1865 by George and Sylvia Stickney, this Bull Valley mansion was designed without right angles, reflecting the couple's practice…
Deadwood, South Dakota
The Bullock Hotel on Main Street in Deadwood was built in 1895 by Seth Bullock, the town's first sheriff and a friend of Theodore…