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Coral Gables, Florida
The Biltmore Hotel, a National Historic Landmark completed in 1926, served as a military hospital during and after World War II before…
Chicago, Illinois
John Dillinger, the Depression-era bank robber and FBI's first Public Enemy Number One, was shot and killed by federal agents in the alley…
Galveston, Texas
The Bishop's Palace, built in 1892 as the Gresham House for Colonel Walter Gresham, is a Victorian castle on Galveston's Broadway designed…
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…
Lake Arrowhead, California
Bracken Fern Manor and the Tudor House at Lake Arrowhead are the surviving parts of a members-only mountain resort of the Prohibition era…
Evergreen, Colorado
The Brook Forest Inn, a mountain lodge in Evergreen, carries several unconnected ghost stories rather than one documented past. Staff…
Morris, Connecticut
From 1903 to 1989, this 600-acre site was Columbia University's rural summer campus, where engineering and surveying students got hands-on…
Chinle, Arizona
Visitors and guides have long described the overlook and canyon floor near Massacre Cave as carrying a heavy, sorrowful weight, with some…
Franklin, Tennessee
Carnton Plantation in Franklin was the home of the McGavock family and became a field hospital after the Battle of Franklin on November 30,…
Placerville, California
William Cary built the first Cary House in 1857, after fire destroyed his earlier hotel. It became the Placerville office of Wells Fargo…
Cassadaga, Florida
Founded in 1894 by the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association, Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp is a small historic community…
Denver, Colorado
Visitors to Cheesman Park describe a heavier, more troubled feeling walking certain paths, and sunken depressions in the grass where old…
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…
Pray, Montana
Chico Hot Springs is a historic hot springs resort in Paradise Valley, north of Yellowstone, and is among the best-known haunted lodgings…
Huntington, Indiana
Jean Baptiste Richardville — Pe-she-wah, nephew of the great Miami war leader Little Turtle through his mother Tacumwah — served as…
Pensacola, Florida
Clara Barkley Dorr had this Victorian house built in 1871 to raise her five children after her husband Eben, a Bagdad lumber-company…
Tonopah, Nevada
The Clown Motel in Tonopah, built around 1985 by the siblings Leona and LeRoy David and filled with hundreds of clown figures and dolls, is…
Bisbee, Arizona
This Art Deco courthouse, designed by the Tucson architect Roy Place and built in 1931, became the seat of Cochise County government when…
Hollywood, California
8433 Sunset Boulevard was Ciro's from 1940 to 1957, the nightclub where Hollywood's biggest stars were seen and where gangster Mickey Cohen…
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord's Colonial Inn, on Monument Square across from the Revolutionary War town green, has been in operation in some form since the…
Kalispell, Montana
The Conrad Mansion was built in 1895 for Charles Conrad, a Missouri River trader and founder of Kalispell, and his family, and is now a…
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
The Cook-Rutledge Mansion in Chippewa Falls is a Victorian house built in the 1870s for a lumber-era family and later owned by the…
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Cordova Inn in downtown St. Petersburg was built in 1921 as the Hotel Scott and was renamed Hotel Cordova in 1923 after the Cordova…
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Built in 1886 by the Eureka Improvement Company and designed by St. Louis architect Isaac Taylor, the Crescent opened to immediate acclaim…