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Skagway, Alaska
Visitors to Soapy Smith's old parlor in Skagway describe cold spots, the feeling of being watched from the back of the room, and the smell…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
This Italianate mansion at 1305 Greensboro Avenue was built before the Civil War for Robert Jemison Jr. Victor Hugh Friedman later gave the…
Dover, Delaware
Judge Samuel Dickinson built this plantation house, later called Poplar Hall, in 1739; his son John Dickinson — the "Penman of the American…
East Windsor, Connecticut
Built in 1784 as the home of Captain Jonathan Pasco, a Revolutionary War officer, this South Main Street house later became a restaurant…
Jupiter, Florida
First illuminated on July 10, 1860, the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse went dark for most of the Civil War after assistant keeper Augustus Lang…
Rochester, Minnesota
The Kahler Grand Hotel opened in 1921 across from the Mayo Clinic in downtown Rochester and has long housed patients and their families…
Suffield, Connecticut
Built in 1872 on South Main Street for Henry Phelps Kent, a tobacco merchant who was among the first to sell cigars in packaged boxes, this…
Laredo, Texas
La Posada Hotel stands on the banks of the Rio Grande in downtown Laredo, next to St. Augustine Church, in a Spanish Revival building that…
Lompoc, California
La Purisima Mission is a reconstructed Spanish mission and living-history park in Lompoc; the 1824 Chumash uprising ended in a deadly…
Aurora, Illinois
Built in 1928 on Stolp Island, the 22-story Leland Tower was once the tallest building in Illinois outside Chicago and operated for decades…
St. Louis, Missouri
The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis was the home of the Lemp family, who built one of the city's great brewing dynasties, and a series of family…
Orlando, Florida
At the Leu House, visitors on guided tours describe apparitions of Harry and Mary Jane Leu, the house's later owners,, most often seen on…
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Little Gardens operates today as an event venue, and while local legend describes it as an 1800s plantation house, at least one historical…
Fall River, Massachusetts
The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is the home where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet on August 4, 1892; Andrew's…
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Luxor, a black glass pyramid at the south end of the Strip, opened in 1993. Las Vegas ghost lists frequently name it as one of the…
Seguin, Texas
The Magnolia Hotel in Seguin began as a log cabin built in 1840 by James Campbell, was a stagecoach stop from the late 1840s into the 1880s…
Albertville, Alabama
On April 24, 1908, during the Dixie tornado outbreak that struck much of the South, a violent tornado tore through Albertville. It killed…
Sanford, Florida
Sanford architect Elton Moughton designed this hotel on Lake Monroe for Sanford's own mayor, Forrest Lake, who commissioned it for roughly…
Oak Brook, Illinois
Coal magnate Francis Stuyvesant Peabody built this Tudor Gothic mansion between 1919 and 1922, naming the estate Mayslake after his late…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The McCune Mansion, built between 1898 and 1901 for railroad and mining magnate Alfred McCune on Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, is a red…
Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven is one of the oldest houses in Vicksburg, built in stages from 1797 and added to in the 1830s and 1849. During the 1863 siege it…
Bannack, Montana
The Meade Hotel is the best-known building in Bannack, Montana's first territorial capital and now a state park ghost town. The brick…
San Antonio, Texas
The Menger Hotel, opened in 1859 beside the Alamo, is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Texas and one of the most storied. Its…
Macon, Georgia
Boone Hall, completed in 1950, is named for Sallie Goelz Boone — "Miss Sallie" to generations of students — who worked at Mercer as a…