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Lake City, South Dakota
Fort Sisseton in northeastern South Dakota began as an Army post in the 1860s on Dakota hunting grounds, later served as a hunting lodge…
Lake George, New York
Fort William Henry at the foot of Lake George is a reconstruction of the British fort that fell to the French in the siege of 1757, a…
North Platte, Nebraska
The Fox Theatre in North Platte opened in 1929 and is now the Neville Center for the Performing Arts, home of the North Platte Community…
Franklin, Indiana
Franklin College's Old Main, a grand building housing administration offices and classrooms, was one of three campus buildings damaged by…
Columbus, Mississippi
Friendship Cemetery in Columbus is a historic burial ground best known as the setting of the 1866 Decoration Day, when local women…
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden's library began with eight young women who formed a study club in 1897 and set out to give the city a reading room. After several…
Salem, Massachusetts
Gallows Hill in Salem was for centuries believed to be where nineteen people convicted of witchcraft were hanged in 1692. Research…
Waterford, Connecticut
Local legend holds that witches were burned along this road in the Quaker Hill section of Waterford, but there's no historical record of…
Malvern, Pennsylvania
The General Warren Inne in Malvern was built in 1745 as a way station on the road to Lancaster and was named for a Revolutionary general.…
Jerome, Arizona
Built around 1890 as a boarding house for mid-level mine management, this building spent more than fifty years in one family's hands as the…
Chicago, Illinois
Built between 1886 and 1887 by real estate developer Robert C. Givins in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, this three-story, triple-turreted…
Santa Paula, California
The Glen Tavern Inn, built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a working hotel in downtown Santa Paula.…
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Staff at the Grand Hotel tell of a maintenance man who met a black mass with red eyes behind the theater stage that knocked him off his…
Willow Springs, Illinois
On December 28, 1956, sisters Barbara Grimes, 15, and Patricia Grimes, 12, disappeared in Chicago after going to see an Elvis Presley movie…
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Hanoverville Roadhouse is said to be haunted by a boy of about eight to ten, dark-haired and dressed in dark clothes and often seen…
Hartford, Connecticut
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center preserves the Hartford home of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe attended séances and put a ghost…
Lafayette, Indiana
Dating to the 1830s-40s and also known as Pierce Cemetery, St. Joseph Cemetery, and several other names over the years, this true pioneer…
Buckner, Illinois
Harrison Cemetery, between Christopher and Buckner in rural Franklin County, takes its name from Isham Harrison, a relative of President…
Highgate Center, Vermont
Highgate Manor, a mansion built in 1818 by Captain Steve Keyes in Highgate Falls, was later the home and practice of Dr. Henry Baxter and…
Apopka, Florida
Built by the Eldredge family in 1903 and moved to the corner of US 441 and SR 436 in 1985 after facing demolition, this mansion now…
Hinsdale, New York
The Hinsdale House, built in 1853 in the Allegany County village of Hinsdale, is widely called one of the most haunted houses in the…
Hollywood, Florida
The Historic Hollywood Beach Resort, the 1925 "Grand Lady" of Hollywood Beach (formerly the Hollywood Beach Resort Hotel), is said to be…
Manilla, Iowa
H. J. Kopak built this two-story Italianate hotel in 1897, a block from the Milwaukee Road depot, to serve railroad passengers and the…
Buffalo, Wyoming
The Historic Occidental Hotel on Main Street in Buffalo, built in 1880, hosted Wild West figures and is now an inn with a saloon and…