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Corydon, Indiana
The Blue River — first mapped by Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's brother, and one of only three Indiana rivers on the National Natural Scenic…
Branford, Connecticut
Branford Supply Pond Park covers 350 wooded acres around a former water-supply reservoir. Visitors on its trails have long reported what…
Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater Beach hosted a Coast Guard rifle range and an Army encampment during World War II. Local legend tells of a young woman in a…
Colburn, Idaho
Along Colburn Creek, visitors have occasionally reported seeing a shadowy figure carrying a lantern walking along the nearby train tracks,…
Salem, Connecticut
Anglers and campers on Gardner Lake have long reported faint piano music rising from the water, heard from every direction, said to be the…
Yorkville, Illinois
The Glen D. Palmer Dam on the Fox River at Yorkville has claimed at least 26 lives since it was built in 1952 — its low profile deceives…
Guild, Tennessee
Hales Bar Dam, built on the Tennessee River in the early 1900s and replaced by Nickajack Dam, has a powerhouse on the National Register of…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
In May 1803, roughly 75 captive Igbo people, purchased in Savannah by agents for planters John Couper and Thomas Spalding, were being…
Sterling, Illinois
Along the Rock River near Sterling's Dillon Home Museum — an 1858 Italianate house built for Civil War Brigadier General Edward Needles…
Savannah, Georgia
Florence Martus, daughter of an ordnance sergeant stationed at Fort Pulaski, spent 44 years greeting nearly every ship that entered or left…
Anchorage, Alaska
Ship Creek is where Anchorage itself began — in 1915, a tent city of more than 2,000 railroad workers sprang up at its mouth, and the…
Silver Springs, Florida
Silver Springs, one of Florida's oldest tourist attractions, saw Hullam Jones and Philip Morrell invent the glass-bottom boat here in 1878.…
Maui, Hawaii
Along Wailea's coastline, a woman in a white gown — known locally as the White Lady of Wailea — is said to wander the shore, occasionally…