31 places found

Big Bay, Michigan
Big Bay Point Lighthouse stands on a bluff above Lake Superior north of Marquette and has marked this stretch of shoreline since 1896. It…

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…

Calumet, Michigan
The Calumet Theatre opened in 1900 in the heart of Michigan's Copper Country and still hosts performances in its ornate auditorium. Its…

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…

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…

Westland, Michigan
Eloise began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse and grew into a sprawling campus of more than 70 buildings that served at different…

Dearborn, Michigan
The best-known ghost at Fair Lane is said to be Ford's butler, who hurries through the hallways, follows visitors, and cleans up after them…

Garden, Michigan
Fayette was an iron-smelting town founded in 1867 by the Jackson Iron Company, with a peak of about 500 people, and its furnaces produced…

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.…

Port Huron, Michigan
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse at the mouth of the St. Clair River dates to the 1820s and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on the Great…

Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Mackinac is a British-built military post on the bluff above Mackinac Island's harbor, begun in 1780 and later held by the United…

Detroit, Michigan
The Fort Shelby Hotel opened in 1918 as a ten-story hotel in downtown Detroit and was expanded to twenty-one stories in 1927. After it…

Mackinac Island, Michigan
Staff at the Grand Hotel tell of a maintenance man who met a black mass with red eyes behind the theater stage that knocked him off his…

Dearborn, Michigan
Staff and former employees at Greenfield Village describe unexplained activity in several buildings: footsteps upstairs and a figure at the…

Holly, Michigan
The Holly Hotel, built in 1891 on a railroad junction in downtown Holly, was for decades a restaurant and comedy club and is often called…

Marquette, Michigan
The Landmark Inn is a historic hotel on Marquette's waterfront that opened in 1930. The aviator Amelia Earhart is said to have stayed in…

Lansing, Michigan
The Michigan State Capitol in Lansing was completed in 1878 and has been restored to its Victorian splendor. Lansing's ghost tours include…

Forester, Michigan
Minnie Quay was a young woman from the Lake Huron port village of Forestville who, according to local tradition, died in 1876 at about…

Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mission Point Resort stands on the site of Mission House, which opened in 1825 as a Protestant mission school for Native American and Métis…

Presque Isle, Michigan
The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron was built in 1840 and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses in Michigan, now a museum…

Detroit, Michigan
Orchestra Hall in Detroit's Midtown opened in 1919 and is the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Its ghost is said to be Ossip…

Paulding, Michigan
The Paulding Light is a glowing light that has been seen for decades along a power line from a gravel turnout on Robbins Pond Road in the…

Grayling, Michigan
Pere Cheney Cemetery is all that remains of a lumber village in Crawford County that faded away around 1900 after disease took many of its…

Petoskey, Michigan
The Perry Hotel in Petoskey's Gaslight District was built in 1899 by Dr. Norman J. Perry and has welcomed guests for over a century. The…