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Wilmington, North Carolina
The Battleship North Carolina, commissioned in 1941 and now a museum ship on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, took part in every major…
Eustis, Florida
Eustis's 518-seat State Theatre opened as a vaudeville house in 1922, with one of the largest photo-play pipe organs in the Southeast, and…
Preston, Idaho
On January 29, 1863, California Volunteer troops under Colonel Patrick Connor attacked a Northwestern Shoshone winter village along the…
St. Joseph, Missouri
The Beattie Mansion, known locally as the House on the Hill, is one of St. Joseph's best-known haunted places. During renovations in 2004,…
East Liverpool, Ohio
Beaver Creek State Park in Columbiana County preserves stone locks and towpath from the Sandy and Beaver Canal, built in the 1830s.…
Adams, Tennessee
The Bell Witch is Tennessee's most famous haunting, a legend from the early 1800s in which the family of the farmer John Bell of Adams was…
Bellaire, Florida
Railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant built the Belleview Biltmore in 1897, and it grew into one of Florida's grandest Gilded Age resorts, added…
Wilmington, Delaware
Philadelphia wool merchant Hanson Robinson built this estate as a summer retreat, originally called Woolton Hall. William du Pont bought it…
Liberty, Missouri
Belvoir Winery occupies the former Odd Fellows Home in Liberty, a complex that opened in 1900 as a home for orphans, widows and the elderly…
Benham, Kentucky
The Benham Schoolhouse Inn occupies a school built in 1926 by Wisconsin Steel, later International Harvester, for the children of the…
Rome, Georgia
Campus legend at Berry College holds that during World War II, a student living in the connecting tower between the East and West Mary…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Betsy Ross House on Arch Street in Old City is a small Colonial house where, by tradition, seamstress Betsy Ross made one of the first…
Asheville, North Carolina
The Biltmore Estate in Asheville is a 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau completed in 1895 for George W. Vanderbilt and still owned…
Tombstone, Arizona
The Bird Cage opened in 1881 and ran around the clock for eight years as saloon, gambling hall, brothel and theatre. By the time it closed…
Birdsville, Georgia
At Birdsville Plantation, visitors and caretakers describe children's laughter at night and doors that open and close on their own.…
Freeport, Florida
Local legend holds that in the early 1900s, a young girl and her little brother cut through the graveyard next to Black Creek's old 1800s…
Smyrna, Delaware
Built around the turn of the 19th century in Smyrna's Historic District, this house belonged to the prominent Blevins family before passing…
Guthrie, Oklahoma
The Blue Belle Saloon on Harrison Avenue in Guthrie dates to the Land Run of 1889 and was later a bordello; the building has since reopened…
Wilder, Kentucky
Bobby Mackey's Music World is a country music bar on Licking Pike in Wilder, run by singer Bobby Mackey since he bought the building in…
Berea, Kentucky
Boone Tavern Hotel opened in 1909 as a guest house for Berea College and is still owned and run by the college, with student staff and a…
Stratford, Connecticut
Brothers David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe spent decades building an eccentric 34-acre homestead on land their family had…
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill served as Tombstone's cemetery from 1878 to 1884, taking in cowboys, miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and sex workers alike, before a…
Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida East Coast Railway engineer William T. Jones built this neoclassical and Georgian-style home in 1909 using a $6,000 railroad injury…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Bourbon Orleans Hotel stands on the site of an orphanage and convent run for 83 years by the Sisters of the Holy Family, the order…