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Gilroy, California
Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park preserves the site of Chitactac, a Mutsun Ohlone village whose name is thought to mean "big dance…
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Built between about 1200 and 1275 CE, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde — more than 150 rooms and 23 kivas, each…
Newark, Delaware
On September 3, 1777, American light infantry and cavalry under General William Maxwell clashed here with the advance guard of British and…
Tampa, Florida
Built in 1917 after fire destroyed an earlier building on the site, the Cuban Club was the social heart of Ybor City's Cuban immigrant…
New York, New York
The Dakota, a Gothic-style apartment house on Central Park West completed in 1884, is a National Historic Landmark and the building outside…
Chicago, Illinois
In Death Alley, pedestrians passing through the alley report cold spots, whispered voices, the sensation of being watched, and, in some…
Miami, Florida
The Deering Estate is a 450-acre Miami-Dade County Heritage Park on Biscayne Bay, centered on the Stone House built for industrialist…
Denver, Colorado
Denver Children's Home opened in the late 1880s as an orphanage on Albion Street, then known as the Denver Orphans' Home. A fire in 1888…
Detroit, Michigan
The Detroit Masonic Temple was designed by the architect George D. Mason and opened in 1926 after six years of construction at a cost of…
Alpine, New Jersey
Devil's Tower is a six-story Gothic stone clock tower built in 1910 on the Palisades above the Hudson in Alpine, long tied to local…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hikers in Dogtown describe uneasy feelings and unexplained sounds, and the woods are wrapped in stories of witches: Thomazine "Tammy"…
Chicago, Illinois
This Gothic graystone building at Dearborn and Ontario dates to the late 1800s and originally housed the Chicago Historical Society; during…
Los Angeles, California
Janitors and night staff in the First Interstate Bank Building, now the AON Center, have reported unexplained noises and lights switching…
Fort Myers, Florida
Completed August 17, 1914, this neoclassical granite building on the corner of 1st and Hendry streets was listed on the National Register…
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Sunshine Skyway's ghost stories include motorists who say they have picked up a young woman standing alone on the bridge around…
Florence, Alabama
Local tradition at Forks of Cypress says a tall, stately woman is seen in the Jackson family's walled burial ground, and visitors say that…
Abercrombie, North Dakota
Fort Abercrombie, on the Red River of the North, was North Dakota's first military post, established in 1858 as a way station for wagon…
Fort Bayard, New Mexico
Fort Bayard was founded in 1866 as a cavalry post that included Buffalo Soldiers and Apache scouts, and it later became a tuberculosis…
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Fort Bridger began in 1843 as a trading post founded by mountain man Jim Bridger and served as an Army post from 1858 to 1890. It is now a…
Coupeville, Washington
Fort Casey on Whidbey Island's Admiralty Head was built in the 1890s as one of the coast artillery forts guarding Puget Sound and is now a…
Fernandina, Florida
Construction on Fort Clinch began in 1847, named for General Duncan Lamont Clinch of Seminole War fame, and was only about two-thirds…
San Angelo, Texas
Fort Concho, on the Concho River in San Angelo, was a frontier army post from 1867 into the late 1880s and is among the best preserved in…
Fort Davis, Texas
Fort Davis, in the mountains of West Texas, was founded in 1854 to protect travelers on the road between San Antonio and El Paso and later…
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…