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Goliad, Texas
Visitors and staff at Presidio La Bahía speak of a small priest in the chapel yard, a cold, misty corner, sighs and moans, and a woman…
Newbury, Ohio
Punderson Manor is the Tudor-style lodge at Punderson State Park in Geauga County, on a glacial lake. Employees and guests have long told…
Springfield, Missouri
Pythian Castle in Springfield was built in 1913 as an orphanage and retirement home for the Knights of Pythias. It later served the…
Quechee, Vermont
The Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm occupies a house the inn dates to 1793, built for Colonel Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant…
Bisbee, Arizona
Miners worked the tunnels beneath Bisbee's Mule Mountains from 1880 to 1975, in one of the richest copper camps in the world. Since 1976…
Winchester, Indiana
The Randolph County Infirmary, built in 1899 on the site of an earlier county poor farm, housed the county's poor, sick, elderly and…
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Read House traces its history to an 1847 inn in downtown Chattanooga, and the present building opened in 1926. Its best-known story is…
Atlanta, Georgia
Furniture magnate Amos Rhodes, whose business later grew into Rooms To Go, built this Romanesque Revival "castle" on Peachtree Street in…
Athens, Ohio
The Ridges, the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1874 on a hillside above Athens and treated thousands of patients until it closed…
Atlanta, Indiana
The Roads Hotel in Atlanta, Indiana, is a Queen Anne mansion built in 1893 by Newton Roads and run by his wife Clara as a hotel serving the…
Sterling, Illinois
Along the Rock River near Sterling's Dillon Home Museum — an 1858 Italianate house built for Civil War Brigadier General Edward Needles…
Wilmington, Delaware
Joseph Shipley, a Wilmington-born merchant banker who made his fortune in Liverpool, built Rockwood in 1854 as his retirement home, hiring…
Watseka, Illinois
Built in 1868 by Dorothy and Asa Roff, this Italianate house in Watseka is the real setting of the Watseka Wonder: in February 1878,…
Cynthiana, Kentucky
Cynthiana's Rohs Opera House began in 1871 as Aeolian Hall, and the theater was rebuilt as the "new" Rohs in 1941. Co-owner Phillip…
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Rose Cemetery, established in the early 1900s, is the oldest African American cemetery in Pinellas County, created during segregation when…
Elizabethtown, Illinois
The Rose Hotel stands on the bluff above the Ohio River in Elizabethtown and is among the oldest hotels in Illinois, with its earliest wing…
Roswell, Georgia
In July 1864, during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, Union troops occupied Roswell and its cotton and woolen mills, which had been producing…
East Aurora, New York
The Roycroft Inn in East Aurora is an Arts and Crafts hotel and restaurant that was the guest house of the Roycroft campus founded by…
Grafton, Illinois
The Ruebel Hotel in Grafton, on the Great River Road, was first built in 1879, burned in 1912 and was rebuilt in 1913 with 32 rooms, a…
Lockport, Illinois
Runyon Preserve, once known as Legion Park and home to a popular swimming hole, takes its name from Armstead Runyon, an early Lockport…
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…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Sachs Covered Bridge, built in 1854 over Marsh Creek west of Gettysburg, was crossed by both armies during the 1863 battle, and Confederate…
Safety Harbor, Florida
Founded in 1925 around the natural mineral springs the Tocobaga people fished and bathed in for centuries before European contact — later…
Bolton Landing, New York
The Sagamore is a historic resort hotel on an island in Lake George. New York ghost lists describe a ghost named Walter who rides the…