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Lenox, Massachusetts
The Mount in Lenox is the estate the writer Edith Wharton built in 1902 and lived in until 1911, and it is now a museum and cultural…
Deadwood, South Dakota
Mount Moriah Cemetery on a hill above Deadwood is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, killed in 1876, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and…
Murphys, California
Staff and guests at the Murphys Historic Hotel report small objects thrown in the kitchen and the Mark Twain Ballroom, a presence on the…
Omaha, Nebraska
The Museum of Shadows is a downtown Omaha museum founded by demonologist Nate Raterman and his wife Kaleigh, a psychic medium, billed as…
Montrose, Colorado
The Museum of the Mountain West is a collection of relocated buildings, saloon and carriage house founded in 1997. The owner reports…
St. Francisville, Louisiana
The Myrtles Plantation was established in 1796 by General David Bradford as Laurel Grove and renamed the Myrtles in 1834. It operates as an…
Fall River, Massachusetts
Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River is the burial place of the Borden family, including Andrew and Abby Borden and Lizzie, who was acquitted…
Tallahassee, Florida
Visitors describe an uneasy, eerie feeling after leaving the Phillips Mausoleum at Oakland Cemetery, and some say the presence of Calvin C.…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1981 on a Key West pier site with its own long history — an 1830s dock, Civil War and Spanish-American War naval use, and decades…
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
The Octagon House in Fond du Lac is an eight-sided house from the 1850s, built in the Orson Fowler style and containing hidden passages and…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, a Dutch Colonial Revival house dedicated in 1928 near the state Capitol, is the official residence of the…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Charleston Jail on Magazine Street was built in 1802, took its first inmates in 1803 and was a district jail for 137 years until…
Wichita, Kansas
Old Cowtown Museum, founded in 1952 on 23 acres beside the Arkansas River in Wichita, is run by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc. in…
Boise, Idaho
The Old Idaho Penitentiary operated from 1872 to 1973, housing more than 13,000 prisoners over its history and seeing escapes and scandals…
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe was built in 1871 and held prisoners until 1995. VisitPA lists it among the state's haunted places for…
Smethport, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Smethport was once the McKean County jail and sheriff's residence; the front half was the sheriff's home and the…
Galesburg, Illinois
Built in 1874 across the street from Knox College, the old Knox County Jail was purchased by the college and today houses its Center for…
Little Rock, Arkansas
Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's first state capitol until a new capitol opened in 1912; it later did…
Washington, Washington DC
The Old Stone House in Georgetown, built in 1765 by Christopher Layman, is the oldest standing building in Washington and has been a…
York, Maine
The Old York Gaol, built in 1719, is the oldest surviving prison in the United States and a National Historic Landmark in York Village. It…
Bisbee, Arizona
Guests at the Oliver House report ghostly footsteps in the hallways at night, cold spots, a rocking chair that moves of its own accord,…
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor is a three-story Queen Anne building designed by the Portland firm of Francis H. Fassett and his son…
Pensacola, Florida
The Daughters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, spent over $400,000 building this late Gothic Revival hospital, designed by…
Okawville, Illinois
The Original Springs Hotel is a mineral-spring hotel and spa in Okawville that traces its resort history to the 1860s and is described as…