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Orleans, Massachusetts
The Orleans Waterfront Inn was built in 1875 as a sea captain's mansion and has been an inn since the early 1900s. The best-known ghost is…
Flagstaff, Arizona
John W. Weatherford built this hall in 1911 as the Majestic Opera House. Heavy snow brought the roof down in 1915, and it reopened in 1917…
Phoenix, Arizona
The Orpheum opened in January 1929 as a Spanish Colonial Revival movie palace, and after a restoration that ran from 1986 to 1997 it is…
Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Consecrated in 1974 by then-Miami Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll on land the Archdiocese had purchased two years earlier, Our Lady Queen of…
Bakersfield, California
The Padre Hotel opened in downtown Bakersfield in 1928. From 1954 it belonged to Milton "Spartacus" Miller, an eccentric who fought City…
Canyon, Texas
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the West Texas A&M campus in Canyon is one of the largest history museums in Texas, with…
Belleville, Illinois
This East Washington Street building in Belleville has hosted a string of restaurants over the years — Diamond Lil's, The Carriage House,…
Pawnee, Oklahoma
The Pawnee Bill Ranch Mansion was the 1910 home of Gordon "Pawnee Bill" Lillie, a Wild West showman, and his wife May, and is now a…
Pearson, Georgia
The Pearson Light is one of several documented "spooklight" legends found along rural railroad routes across southern Georgia, in the same…
Pendleton, Oregon
Beneath downtown Pendleton, a network of rooms and passages once served a business district that included Chinese workers' living quarters,…
Pensacola, Florida
Perched on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, this 160-year-old lighthouse has been called one of the most haunted in America by the Travel…
Grayling, Michigan
Pere Cheney Cemetery is all that remains of a lumber village in Crawford County that faded away around 1900 after disease took many of its…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Staff at the Pioneers Museum describe unease near what was once a manager's apartment in the building. Local telling holds that he was shot…
Savannah, Georgia
Operating since the 1750s, The Pirates' House began as a pub serving sailors near the Savannah waterfront, and tunnels dug beneath the…
Emmett, Idaho
According to local legend, a woman hanged herself at Emmett's Plaza Bridge long ago, and her shadow is still sometimes reported along the…
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Point of Graves, in Portsmouth's South End, dates to 1671 and is the oldest burial ground in New Hampshire. Its best-known feature is the…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Pottawattamie County Jail opened in 1885 as a "squirrel cage" rotary jail: three stacked levels of wedge-shaped cells built around a…
Ione, California
Visitors and staff at Preston Castle describe a watched feeling throughout the building, concentrated in the basement where the head…
San Francisco, California
Guests at the Queen Anne Hotel describe the gentle presence of Mary Lake, with reports centred on Room 410, which was her office and is now…
Bisbee, Arizona
Miners worked the tunnels beneath Bisbee's Mule Mountains from 1880 to 1975, in one of the richest copper camps in the world. Since 1976…
Hillside, Illinois
On December 1, 1958, a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School on Chicago's West Side killed 92 students and 3 nuns after smoke and flames…
Hancock, Michigan
The Quincy Mine on Quincy Hill above Hancock opened in 1846 and became one of the most productive copper mines in the world. Many miners…
Peoria, Illinois
Built in 1891 as the Rock Island Depot, this riverfront building served 32 daily trains at its peak and hosted the "Peoria Rocket"…
Monterey, California
The adobe was built around 1836 for Don Rafael Gonzales, customs administrator at the Port of Monterey, and later became a boarding house…