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Atwater, California
Castle Air Museum opened in 1981 beside the former Castle Air Force Base and holds more than eighty aircraft. Its most-reported airframe is…
Castro Valley, California
Staff at the Chabot Theater describe a man's laughter carrying through the empty building and shadows moving up and down the aisles late at…
Alva, Oklahoma
The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva occupies the former Alva General Hospital, built in 1932 and closed in 1972. TravelOK includes it among…
Colburn, Idaho
Along Colburn Creek, visitors have occasionally reported seeing a shadowy figure carrying a lantern walking along the nearby train tracks,…
Toledo, Ohio
The Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo's Old West End is a campus of historic buildings, once a convent and school run by Catholic sisters,…
Tucson, Arizona
Guides and visitors at Colossal Cave describe a shadowy figure taken for one of the bandits who once hid here, a woman in white near the…
Denver, Colorado
Thomas Croke, a Denver businessman, built this Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in 1891; two years later U.S. Senator and newspaper…
Newtown, Connecticut
Newtown's public library opened in 1932, a posthumous gift from Mary Elizabeth Hawley, who named it for her grandfather, a Newtown…
Yankton, South Dakota
The Dakota Theatre in Yankton is an Art Deco theater that closed in 1987, was bought by the nonprofit Dakota Theatre, Inc. in 1990 and…
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Gerard Schaefer, a Martin County sheriff's deputy later linked to dozens of killings across the region, murdered two teenage girls, Susan…
Clare, Michigan
The Doherty Hotel in Clare opened in 1924 and became a stop for travelers heading north and, during Prohibition, a speakeasy and meeting…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour guides and visitors at Eastern State Penitentiary describe cackling laughter echoing from empty cellblocks, shifting shadows glimpsed…
Baltimore, Maryland
Edgar Allan Poe lived in this small brick rowhouse on North Amity Street in the early 1830s with his aunt Maria Clemm, and wrote some of…
Richmond, Virginia
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond holds the largest collection of Poe's belongings and is housed around the Old Stone House, among the…
Polk, Florida
Aerobatics competitor and aircraft designer Kermit Weeks built his original Weeks Air Museum collection in Miami starting in 1981, only for…
New Braunfels, Texas
The Faust Hotel opened in 1929 in downtown New Braunfels, built by Walter Faust. Staff have reported seeing the apparition of a man…
Holland, Michigan
The Felt Mansion is a 25-room lakeshore estate built in the 1920s by the Chicago inventor Dorr Felt as a dream home for his wife Agnes.…
Duluth, Minnesota
Fitger's Inn on Duluth's lakefront occupies the restored Fitger's Brewery, which brewed beer from 1881 until 1972 and is listed on the…
Delaware City, Delaware
Built to guard the mouth of the Delaware River, Fort Delaware became a Union prison for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, holding…
Prospect, Maine
Fort Knox is a granite fortress on the Penobscot River in Prospect, begun in 1844 to guard the river approach and still standing as a state…
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Fort Morgan has guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay since 1834 and saw service in nearly every American conflict from the Civil War through the…
Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Revere stands on Telegraph Hill in Hull, where defenses have been built since the Revolution and the remains of the fort and its…
Crawford, Nebraska
Fort Robinson in northwest Nebraska was an Army post from 1874 to 1948 and is now a state park and historic site. It is where Oglala leader…
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fort Taber, later Fort Rodman, guards the entrance to New Bedford harbor and is now a city park with a museum and Battery Milliken. Ghost…