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Marco Island, Florida
Captain Bill opened this inn in 1896, and it has operated as a hotel and restaurant on Marco Island ever since. Guests and staff describe…
Asheville, North Carolina
The Omni Grove Park Inn, a stone resort built in 1913 on the side of Sunset Mountain, is best known for the Pink Lady, a young woman in a…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The William Penn Hotel, opened in 1916 by Henry Clay Frick's company, is Pittsburgh's grand downtown hotel and is now the Omni William…
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…
Memphis, Tennessee
The Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis, a grand 1928 vaudeville and movie palace, is best known for the ghost of a girl named Mary, said…
Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Consecrated in 1974 by then-Miami Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll on land the Archdiocese had purchased two years earlier, Our Lady Queen of…
Ashland, Kentucky
The Paramount Arts Center opened on September 5, 1931, as a movie palace designed by the Rapp and Rapp firm, and it remains the centerpiece…
Ellicott City, Maryland
The Patapsco Female Institute was a girls' boarding school from 1837 to 1891 on a hilltop above Ellicott City, with as many as 150 students…
Cañon City, Colorado
The Museum of Colorado Prisons occupies a retired cellhouse at the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City. Visitors and staff describe…
Skagway, Alaska
The Red Onion opened in 1897 as Skagway's most expensive brothel, serving the men pouring through town for the Klondike gold rush. It runs…
Ringwood, New Jersey
Ringwood Manor is a nearly 200-year-old 51-room mansion in Ringwood State Park, built on the site of a Revolutionary-era ironworks and now…
Wilmington, Delaware
Joseph Shipley, a Wilmington-born merchant banker who made his fortune in Liverpool, built Rockwood in 1854 as his retirement home, hiring…
Salem, Massachusetts
The Ropes Mansion on Essex Street in Salem is a Georgian house built in 1727 and occupied by the Ropes family for generations, now cared…
Orlando, Florida
The ghost of Benjamin Miles, a local settler said to have died in the 1840s and buried here in an unmarked grave, is reported as a shadowy…
Sitka, Alaska
Built between 1841 and 1843, the Russian Bishop's House is one of the last buildings of Russian America still standing, and served as the…
Nashville, Tennessee
The Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music, was built in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle by the riverboat captain Thomas…
Atchison, Kansas
The Sallie House in Atchison was built in the mid-1800s and is tied locally to Dr. Charles Finney. Local lore holds that a girl named…
Mission Hills, California
Father Fermín Lasuén founded Mission San Fernando Rey de España on 8 September 1797, the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions in…
San Francisco, California
A. P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America, put this hotel up in North Beach in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and…
Santa Maria, California
Frank J. McCoy opened the Santa Maria Inn on 16 May 1917 with twenty-four rooms, each with its own bath. McCoy was a master innkeeper and a…
Caldwell, Idaho
The Saratoga Hotel, a three-story Chateau-style hotel built in 1904 on Main Street in Caldwell, was one of the largest hotels in the…
West Haven, Connecticut
On August 6, 1881, an oysterman found the body of 21-year-old Jennie Cramer washed up at Savin Rock. An autopsy found she had been raped…
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Sayre Mansion is a Civil War-era inn in Bethlehem's Fountain Hill district. Guests in Room 32 report shadowy figures, tugged sheets and…
Princeton, Indiana
Built in 1908 over the Patoka River by the Indiana Bridge Company and named for John Severns, the first white settler in Gibson County…