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Jefferson, Texas
The Jefferson Hotel occupies an 1851 building in Jefferson, once a busy steamboat port in East Texas and now known for its ghost walks.…
Dover, Delaware
Judge Samuel Dickinson built this plantation house, later called Poplar Hall, in 1739; his son John Dickinson — the "Penman of the American…
Hagerstown, Maryland
The Jonathan Hager House in Hagerstown City Park was built around 1739 by Hager, the German immigrant who founded the city, and is now a…
Omaha, Nebraska
Joslyn Castle is a Scottish baronial mansion built in 1903 for George and Sarah Joslyn, and later used as the administrative offices of the…
Genesee, Idaho
Built as a resort and later operated as an asylum, this building was sold in 1968 when a new hospital opened, then became St. Ignatius…
Santa Ana, California
Local guides say the Kellogg family is still present in the house, including a group of schoolchildren on a field trip who saw drawers in…
Kennebunk, Maine
The Kennebunk Inn was built in 1799, served as a tavern, stagecoach stop and jail, and spent decades as a doctor's home office before…
McCarthy, Alaska
Kennecott was the centre of a copper empire until the ore ran out and the mill town was abandoned almost overnight in 1938, leaving…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Visitors to Kennesaw Mountain describe Confederate soldiers in bloody, war-torn clothing who vanish when approached, translucent figures…
Van Buren, Arkansas
Built in 1891 as a commercial block with a billiard parlour, saloon and newspaper office, this building became the King Opera House in 1901…
Mason, Ohio
Kings Island is said to be haunted by a little girl in a blue dress, reported at the International Restaurant and near the White Water…
Marietta, Ohio
The Lafayette Hotel stands at Front and Ohio streets on the Ohio River in Marietta and has welcomed guests since 1918. TourismOhio and the…
O'ahu, Hawaii
At the Polynesian Cultural Center's lagoon, staff and guests tell of the "Laie Lady," a woman named Nalani who is said to have lost her…
Princeton, West Virginia
Lake Shawnee is an abandoned amusement park near Princeton, opened in the 1920s and closed in 1966, built on land where Mitchell Clay's…
Berlin, Connecticut
This traprock ridge, with cliffs over 200 feet high overlooking Meriden, gets its brooding name from a 1636 incident: a member of the…
Springfield, Missouri
The Landers Theatre in downtown Springfield opened in 1909 and has hosted performers such as Lillian Russell, John Philip Sousa and Lon…
Newark, Ohio
The Licking County Historic Jail in downtown Newark is a Gothic-style brownstone jail built in 1889 with a sheriff's residence in front,…
New Haven, Connecticut
The carousel at Lighthouse Point Park was carved around 1905 by Charles Looff and Charles Carmel and housed in a Renaissance Revival…
Decatur, Illinois
Built in 1916 on the site of the Arcade Hotel, which had burned to the ground the year before, this Decatur theater has drawn ghost reports…
Dedham, Maine
The Lucerne Inn on Route 1A in Dedham grew from a house built in the early 1800s that its owner enlarged into a tavern and inn, and it was…
Santa Ana, California
The John A. Maag Farmhouse, built by John and Catherine Maag amid an orchard, is one of the historic buildings preserved at the Heritage…
Macomb, Illinois
This building at 201 North Randolph Street opened in 1926-27 as the Lamoine Hotel, Macomb's first large modern hotel, built to serve the…
Madison, Ohio
Madison Seminary is a red-brick building completed in 1857 as a school, later used from 1891 as a home for Civil War nurses and the widows…
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…