434 places found

Montevallo, Alabama
On the night of February 4, 1908, Condie Cunningham and her roommate were making hot chocolate over a chafing dish in their room in Main…

Baltimore, Maryland
The USS Constellation in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was launched in 1854 and is the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy, now a…

Alameda, California
The USS Hornet (CV-12) was commissioned in 1943. She earned nine battle stars in the Pacific, and on 24 July 1969 she recovered the Apollo…

Van Lear, Kentucky
The Coal Miners' Museum in Van Lear occupies a building erected in 1913 as the Consolidation Coal Company's office, which later held other…

Villisca, Iowa
Visitors and investigators at the Villisca Axe Murder House describe footsteps in empty rooms, voices, whispers, doors and objects that…

Wickenburg, Arizona
Henry Wickenburg found gold here in 1863, and the Vulture became the richest mine in Arizona history, yielding more than 340,000 ounces…

Cape May, New Jersey
The Washington Inn on Washington Street in Cape May is a restaurant in a historic mansion. Cape May ghost lists and its own staff tell of a…

West Point, Mississippi
Waverley is a National Historic Landmark house near West Point, built in 1852 by Colonel George Hampton Young on a cotton plantation of…

Waverly Hall, Georgia
Established in 1829, Waverly Hall Cemetery has built a reputation, documented in Jim Miles' book Weird Georgia and by multiple paranormal…

Louisville, Kentucky
Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a tuberculosis hospital in southwest Louisville, and its large 1926 main building closed as a…

Brooksville, Florida
Built in 1882, this Victorian family home has drawn coverage from the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times over the years, including a…

Moundsville, West Virginia
The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, a Gothic stone prison that opened in 1876 and closed in 1995, saw riots, fires and…

Danbury, Connecticut
Fairfield Hall - 3rd floor haunted by soul of young girl who had committed suicide in the tower on the top of the hall. She is know for…

Whiting, Indiana
Known as Whiting Beach for decades after the city acquired 22 acres of this Lake Michigan shoreline in 1909, the park later took the name…

Mitchell, Indiana
Built in 1894, this Victorian house was bought in 1899 by Dr. John Gibbons and his wife Jessie, who took in orphaned and abandoned…

Fieldsboro, New Jersey
White Hill Mansion is a restoration project dating to 1722 that the borough saved from demolition in 1999. It is cited among New Jersey's…

Newport, Rhode Island
The White Horse Tavern in Newport, which opened in 1673, is billed as the oldest tavern still operating in the United States. It has been a…

Paradise, Michigan
Whitefish Point Light Station on Lake Superior marks the stretch of shoreline known as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes, where hundreds of…

Williams, Indiana
Built in 1884 by Joseph J. Daniels, the Williams Covered Bridge is a 373-foot double-span Howe truss bridge over the East Fork of the White…

San Jose, California
Sarah Winchester came to the Santa Clara Valley in 1886 after losing her infant daughter, Annie, and then her husband, William Wirt…

Windham, Connecticut
Local legend ties this 1783 inn — originally three stories, reduced to two after it began to buckle around 1850, and converted to…

Salem, Massachusetts
The Witch House, also called the Jonathan Corwin House, is the only building still standing in Salem with a direct tie to the 1692 witch…

Cañon City, Colorado
Woodpecker Hill, on the grounds of the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City, is the burial ground for inmates who died in custody or…

Atlanta, Georgia
Author and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, best known for collecting and publishing the Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus tales, lived in this…