433 places found

Glendale, Arizona
William Henry Bartlett came from Illinois and founded Sahuaro Ranch in 1886, building it into a working spread of fig and fruit orchards,…

San Antonio, Texas
Staff and visitors at San Fernando Cathedral have reported shadowy figures near the altar, voices with no clear source, orbs in…

San Juan Capistrano, California
Founded in 1775 and famous for the swallows that return to the mission every March, San Juan Capistrano carries a heavier history after…

Palatka, Florida
Congregants describe the ghost of an elderly former member still shuffling up the church aisle just as he did in life, and, in the nursery,…

Savannah, Georgia
Once a hotel, Weston House at 231 West Boundary Street became a Savannah College of Art and Design dormitory, standing in an area where…

Savannah, Georgia
Florence Martus, daughter of an ordnance sergeant stationed at Fort Pulaski, spent 44 years greeting nearly every ship that entered or left…

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…

Scotia, California
Built in 1923–24 as the Mowatoc Hotel to house workers and visitors in the Pacific Lumber Company's company town, this redwood hotel took…

Scottsburg, Indiana
This 1892 brick building served as the Scott County Poor Farm, a state-mandated county home where residents without family or money lived…

Newport, Rhode Island
Seaview Terrace, also called the Carey Mansion, is a 40,000-square-foot Châteauesque house on Newport's Cliff Walk, the largest privately…

Ocala, Florida
The Seven Sisters Inn is a bed and breakfast in the Ocala Historic District, made up of two Victorian houses, one painted purple and one…

Nebraska City, Nebraska
Seven Sisters Road is a rural county road in Otoe County south of Nebraska City, known on maps as County Road L. Local legend says a man…

Pensacola, Florida
Seville Quarter has occupied this Government Street block since 1871, when the main building housed the Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Co.;…

Shelburne, Vermont
The Shelburne Museum, founded in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb, is a campus of historic New England buildings moved to Shelburne. Its…

Rosemont, Illinois
This 11-story atrium hotel near O'Hare Airport has a somber real history of multiple suicides by jumping from its upper floors, along with…

Oxford, New Jersey
Shippen Manor in Oxford is a stone mansion built in the 1750s for the owner of the Oxford Furnace, which made iron used in the…

Shoshone, Idaho
At the Shoshone Ice Caves, staff and visitors have reported hearing voices and heavy footsteps deep in the caves when no one else is…

Murtaugh, Idaho
Built in 1908, Sidewinders has served for most of its history as Murtaugh's main gathering spot — message center, watering hole, card room,…

Austell, Georgia
The Crystal Pistol Music Hall, a 1,000-seat theater built as a replica of Atlanta's 1855 Atheneum Theatre, opened with Six Flags Over…

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Skirvin Hilton, opened in 1911 by oilman W.B. Skirvin, is Oklahoma City's grand historic hotel. Its resident ghost is Effie, a…

Indianapolis, Indiana
The Slippery Noodle Inn opened in 1850 as the Tremont House and is Indiana's oldest bar still in its original building, listed on the…

Birmingham, Alabama
James Withers Sloss opened his Birmingham pig-iron furnace in 1882, and for nearly ninety years it ran around the clock, turning Alabama…

Middletown, Ohio
The Sorg Opera House in downtown Middletown was built in 1891 by paper magnate Paul J. Sorg, the city's first multi-millionaire, as a gift…

Savannah, Georgia
Designed by architect Charles Cluskey and built between 1838 and 1840 for shipping merchant Francis Sorrel, this house is one of Savannah's…