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Glendale, California
Leslie C. Brand — the man usually called the father of modern Glendale — built El Miradero between 1903 and 1904 at the foot of the Verdugo…
Branford, Connecticut
Branford Supply Pond Park covers 350 wooded acres around a former water-supply reservoir. Visitors on its trails have long reported what…
Bristow, Virginia
Brentsville's courthouse and 1850 jail are a Prince William County historic site. Lore includes the 1872 shooting of attorney James Clark…
Brookdale, California
The ghost of Brookdale Lodge is a little girl named Sarah Logan, said to have drowned in the creek that runs through the Brook Room, and…
Coffeyville, Kansas
Completed in 1904 at a reported cost of $125,000, the three-story, 16-room Brown Mansion in Coffeyville was built for businessman W.P.…
Denver, Colorado
Henry Cordes Brown, who had made a fortune in Denver real estate, opened the Brown Palace Hotel in 1892 after four years of construction;…
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Bube's Brewery is a 19th-century brewery and hotel with a restaurant in its stone cellars. Guests describe laughter from the lower chambers…
Woodstock, Illinois
Built in 1865 by George and Sylvia Stickney, this Bull Valley mansion was designed without right angles, reflecting the couple's practice…
Collinsville, Illinois
Cahokia Mounds, just east of St. Louis, was the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, home to an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people at…
Lake Charles, Louisiana
The Calcasieu Parish Courthouse in Lake Charles is a brick and terra-cotta building completed in 1912 to replace the courthouse destroyed…
Swissvale, Pennsylvania
The Carrie Blast Furnaces, on the Monongahela River in Rankin and Swissvale, are the surviving ironworks of a Homestead Steel Works plant…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Hearthstone Inn on Cascade Avenue occupies a Victorian house turned bed and breakfast. Staff describe a little girl seen running and…
Cashtown, Pennsylvania
Owners and guests of the Cashtown Inn have described thumping doors, lights turning on and off on their own, doors locking and unlocking by…
Valentine, Nebraska
Centennial Hall in Valentine is one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Nebraska, listed on the National Register of Historic…
Rochester, New York
The Rundel Memorial Building, the downtown anchor of Rochester's Central Library, is said to be haunted by something in its closed stacks…
Castro Valley, California
Staff at the Chabot Theater describe a man's laughter carrying through the empty building and shadows moving up and down the aisles late at…
Hollywood, California
Guests and staff at the Chateau Marmont report windows opening on their own, furniture moved, disembodied voices, noises through the night…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Hikers near the Illinois Monument at Cheatham Hill report hearing marching orders called out and the sound of footsteps from a large body…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Helen Hunt Jackson, the writer best known for Ramona, gave her name to these falls in Cheyenne Canyon after her death in 1885; her grave…
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18-20, 1863, was the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War after Gettysburg, with nearly…
San Patricio, Texas
Josefa "Chipita" Rodríguez, born in 1799, ran a stopover for travelers near the Aransas River. After a horse trader named John Savage was…
Richmond, Virginia
Ghost tours tell of disembodied screams and train whistles near Church Hill Tunnel, and some say that in early October you can hear the…
Cincinnati, Ohio
Music Hall, opened in 1878 and a National Historic Landmark since 1975, is Cincinnati's home for its symphony, opera and ballet. It was…
Biddeford, Maine
Biddeford's City Theater is the opera house in the 1895 City Hall complex designed by John Calvin Stevens, which opened on January 20,…