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Denver, Colorado
Denver Children's Home opened in the late 1880s as an orphanage on Albion Street, then known as the Denver Orphans' Home. A fire in 1888…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Devereaux House, built in 1857 for William Staines, is considered the first mansion in Utah. It later belonged to William Jennings, who…
Tallapoosa, Georgia
Devil's Kitchen, a secluded creek canyon near Key's Castle off Old Ridgeway Road, takes its name either from the moonshine once called "the…
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Gerard Schaefer, a Martin County sheriff's deputy later linked to dozens of killings across the region, murdered two teenage girls, Susan…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Dobbin House on Steinwehr Avenue was built in 1776 by Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a house and school; it is said to have been a…
Chicago, Illinois
This Gothic graystone building at Dearborn and Ontario dates to the late 1800s and originally housed the Chicago Historical Society; during…
Minooka, Illinois
Dresden Cemetery, the oldest burial ground in the area, was relocated to what is now St. Mary's Cemetery in Minooka after the ground was…
Richmond, Indiana
-BACK CAMPUS-...On Halloween night in 1857 there were 2 students who were walking in the back of campus. There is a big pipe line that goes…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour guides and visitors at Eastern State Penitentiary describe cackling laughter echoing from empty cellblocks, shifting shadows glimpsed…
Scotch Grove, Iowa
Jones County ran a poor farm on this land from the mid-1800s, housing people who were poor, disabled or mentally ill in exchange for work…
Boise, Idaho
The Egyptian Theatre opened in downtown Boise in 1927, built in the ornate Egyptian Revival style popularized after the discovery of King…
Prescott, Arizona
Staff and visitors at the Elks Opera House report unexplained voices, footsteps in empty hallways, lights turning on when no one is inside…
Westland, Michigan
Eloise began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse and grew into a sprawling campus of more than 70 buildings that served at different…
Stowe, Vermont
Emily's Bridge is the nickname of the Gold Brook Covered Bridge in Stowe, a one-lane wooden Howe-truss bridge built in 1844 that still…
Cape May, New Jersey
The Emlen Physick Estate is an 18-room Queen Anne mansion designed by Frank Furness and built in 1879 for Dr. Emlen Physick, and it is now…
Champaign, Illinois
The English Building at the University of Illinois, built in 1905 as the Women's Building, is the subject of one of campus's most enduring…
Maitland, Florida
Tina Tiedtke and her family founded this nonprofit arthouse cinema in 1985; it now hosts the Florida Film Festival. Its odd, decades-old…
Manchester, Vermont
The Equinox, a grand historic resort in Manchester Village, is widely called the most haunted hotel in Vermont and appears in Thea Lewis's…
Cleveland, Ohio
Erie Street Cemetery, opened in 1826, is Cleveland's oldest existing burial ground and holds early settlers, Civil War soldiers and many of…
Atlanta, Georgia
Built in Washington County in 1787, the Pope-Walton House was disassembled and rebuilt on three acres in Buckhead in 1967, where it…
Defuniak Springs, Florida
Founded May 27, 1827, when the Reverend Murdoch Murphy of the Alabama Synod organized a congregation of fifteen families here, Euchee…
New London, Connecticut
Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill based his autobiographical masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on this childhood home and…
Eureka, Utah
Eureka grew from the Tintic Mining District after silver was found in 1869, and its Main Street is lined with empty brick buildings that…
Peninsula, Ohio
The Everett Covered Bridge crosses Furnace Run in Cuyahoga Valley National Park; the bridge standing today was rebuilt in 1986 after the…