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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…
Winchester, Virginia
Abram's Delight, a limestone house built in 1754, is the oldest house in Winchester and is now a historic house museum. Staff and local…
Oracle, Arizona
Edwin and Lillian Dodge built this adobe ranch house in Oracle in 1882 as a boarding house, and by the turn of the century it was taking in…
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
The Amos J. Blake House in Fitzwilliam was built in 1837 as a combined store and family home and is now a museum run by the Fitzwilliam…
New Castle, Delaware
Built in 1738 and also known as the Dr. Finney House, the Amstel House has stood through disease outbreaks, a change of national control,…
Moundsville, West Virginia
The Archive of the Afterlife in Moundsville, opened in 2012 by Steve Hummel and now housed in the Sanford Center, bills itself as the…
Arcola, Illinois
Built in 1885 by the Illinois Central Railroad, this Arcola depot now serves as a museum and information center, displaying railroad…
Newport, Rhode Island
The Artillery Company of Newport, chartered in 1741, is one of the oldest military organizations in the country, and its armory and museum…
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion in Altoona was built in the 1840s for iron master Elias Baker and is now a museum of the Blair County Historical Society.…
Camden, New Jersey
The USS New Jersey, commissioned in 1943, is the most decorated battleship in the U.S. Navy, with service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam…
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Battleship North Carolina, commissioned in 1941 and now a museum ship on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, took part in every major…
Galveston, Texas
The Battleship Texas, commissioned in 1914, served in both world wars and is the last surviving dreadnought-era battleship. It spent…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter was built in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier, grandfather of the chess champion…
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Bellamy Mansion on Market Street in Wilmington is a grand Italianate and Greek Revival house built in 1859 for a wealthy physician and…
Nashville, Tennessee
Belmont Mansion on the Belmont University campus was built in the 1850s as the Italianate villa of Adelicia Acklen, one of the wealthiest…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Betsy Ross House on Arch Street in Old City is a small Colonial house where, by tradition, seamstress Betsy Ross made one of the first…
Independence, Missouri
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate in Independence is a historic house dating to 1852 that was once home to the artist George Caleb Bingham and…
Tombstone, Arizona
The Bird Cage opened in 1881 and ran around the clock for eight years as saloon, gambling hall, brothel and theatre. By the time it closed…
Galveston, Texas
The Bishop's Palace, built in 1892 as the Gresham House for Colonel Walter Gresham, is a Victorian castle on Galveston's Broadway designed…
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…
Buffalo, New York
The park holds the destroyer USS The Sullivans, the cruiser USS Little Rock and the submarine USS Croaker. Staff report shadow figures and…
Miami, Arizona
The former Bullion Plaza School in the copper town of Miami now operates as a volunteer-run cultural center and museum. Ghost Adventures…
Mount Holly, New Jersey
The Burlington County Prison in Mount Holly, designed by Robert Mills, held prisoners from 1811 to 1965 and is now a museum and a National…
Saratoga Springs, New York
The Canfield Casino in Congress Park, opened in 1870 by the gambler John Morrissey and now the Saratoga Springs History Museum, is said to…