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Savannah, Georgia
Visitors and staff at the Mercer-Williams House describe a chilling presence in the study and elsewhere in the house, tied by most tellers…
New York, New York
The Merchant's House Museum in NoHo is a Federal and Greek Revival row house, home to the Tredwell family from 1835 to 1933 and preserved…
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Minnesota State Capitol, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1905, is a Beaux-Arts landmark topped by one of the largest…
Riverside, California
The Mission Inn began in 1876 as a small adobe boarding house run by the Miller family. Over the following decades Frank Miller built it…
Lompoc, California
Founded on December 8, 1787, Mission La Purísima Concepción was rebuilt at its present site after the 1812 earthquake destroyed the…
Denver, Colorado
The Molly Brown House was home to Margaret "Molly" Brown, the Titanic survivor, and is now a museum. An independent investigation found…
Bellingham, Washington
The Mount Baker Theatre in downtown Bellingham, opened in 1927, is a Spanish Moorish performing-arts palace with a clock tower. Its…
Crystal Lake, Illinois
At Mount Thabor Cemetery, visitors report orbs and green mist photographed among the graves, voices laughing, singing, or mumbling, and…
New Orleans, Louisiana
Muriel's Jackson Square stands beside the square in a French Quarter building dating to the mid-1700s, which in the early 1800s was the…
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth was built in 1878 by members of the Peirce family after the town's earlier entertainment hall burned,…
Nevada City, California
Pearson and Healy opened the National Exchange Hotel on August 20, 1856, leasing the brick Bicknell Block after a fire that swept through…
Fargo, North Dakota
North Dakota State University in Fargo has two of the state's best-known campus ghost stories. Minard Hall, built in 1902 as Science Hall,…
Albany, New York
The New York State Capitol in Albany, begun in 1867 and a vast Romanesque Revival building, is said to be haunted by a night watchman…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1981 on a Key West pier site with its own long history — an 1830s dock, Civil War and Spanish-American War naval use, and decades…
Franklin, Kentucky
Octagon Hall was built between 1847 and 1859 by Andrew Jackson Caldwell near Franklin, in an unusual eight-sided plan, and it served both…
Mansfield, Ohio
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, built between 1886 and 1910 in a Romanesque style and in use until 1990, is best known as a main…
Athens, Georgia
Founded in 1801 as Athens's original public burial ground, this cemetery served the town from roughly 1810 to 1856 with no fee required,…
Salem, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Old Burying Point report voices, whispers and muffled weeping, orbs of light, sudden fog, shadows drifting between the…
Bartow, Florida
Completed in 1909 and now home to the Polk County Historical Museum, the old courthouse stands on the same plot where, in 1886, the bodies…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street was built by 1771 as a customs house and exchange and was used as a prison…
Globe, Arizona
The 1910 Gila County Jail in Globe once connected to the neighboring courthouse by a catwalk nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs. Its best-known…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Deer Lodge, Montana
The Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge opened in 1871 as the Montana Territorial Prison and held inmates until the last were moved to a new…
Little Rock, Arkansas
Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's first state capitol until a new capitol opened in 1912; it later did…