247 places found

Bristol, Connecticut
The oldest continuously operating amusement park in the country, Lake Compounce has seen real tragedy over its long history. In 1999,…

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Langston's Western Wear occupies a restored 1910 building in Oklahoma City's Stockyards City that was once a hotel and dance hall. 405…

Lava Hot Springs, Idaho
The Lava Hot Springs Inn is a hotel and spa in a building that began as a hospital serving veterans in the 1920s or 1930s, depending on the…

Calabasas, California
The oldest part of this adobe dates from 1844, making it one of the last surviving adobes in the San Fernando Valley. It became the home of…

Lily Dale, New York
Lily Dale is a gated spiritualist community in Chautauqua County, founded in 1879 and known worldwide for its resident mediums, healers and…

Middletown, Delaware
This farmhouse northeast of Middletown was built in two phases — a Greek Revival section around 1830, with a Second Empire addition around…

Sudbury, Massachusetts
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury has welcomed travelers since 1716 and takes its name from the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales…

Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez lore says Haller Nutt's presence is still felt on the upper floors of Longwood he never saw completed, along with the faint…

Los Angeles, California
Visitors to the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery talk most about Kabar, Rudolph Valentino's dog: people who stop at his marker describe a dog…

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana's Old State Capitol is the Gothic castle-style building on the Mississippi riverfront in downtown Baton Rouge, now a museum of…

Yuma, Arizona
Lutes Casino in downtown Yuma is a long-running pool hall and restaurant, known for domino tables and a burger topped with a hot dog;…

Santa Ana, California
The John A. Maag Farmhouse, built by John and Catherine Maag amid an orchard, is one of the historic buildings preserved at the Heritage…

Madison, Ohio
Madison Seminary is a red-brick building completed in 1857 as a school, later used from 1891 as a home for Civil War nurses and the widows…

Mansfield, Connecticut
Operating from 1860 until its 1993 closure, Mansfield Training School and Hospital housed and treated people with intellectual…

Spring Valley, Illinois
The Massock Mausoleum sits in Spring Valley's Lithuanian Liberty Cemetery, established in 1914, where three members of the Massock family —…

Oak Brook, Illinois
Coal magnate Francis Stuyvesant Peabody built this Tudor Gothic mansion between 1919 and 1922, naming the estate Mayslake after his late…

Alton, Illinois
At McPike Mansion, the owners believe about a dozen spirits remain, among them McPike's mother Lydia and his first wife Mary, with visitors…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven is one of the oldest houses in Vicksburg, built in stages from 1797 and added to in the 1830s and 1849. During the 1863 siege it…

Savannah, Georgia
Visitors and staff at the Mercer-Williams House describe a chilling presence in the study and elsewhere in the house, tied by most tellers…

New Lenox, Illinois
A 406-acre section of Messenger Woods was designated an Illinois Nature Preserve in 1994 and 1999, protecting a mix of forest, prairie,…

Riverside, California
The Mission Inn began in 1876 as a small adobe boarding house run by the Miller family. Over the following decades Frank Miller built it…

Lompoc, California
Founded on December 8, 1787, Mission La Purísima Concepción was rebuilt at its present site after the 1812 earthquake destroyed the…

Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mission Point Resort stands on the site of Mission House, which opened in 1825 as a Protestant mission school for Native American and Métis…

Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The Mothman Museum on Main Street in Point Pleasant, opened in 2005 beside the silver Mothman statue, holds props from the film The Mothman…