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Taylors Falls, Minnesota
The Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls occupies buildings put up between 1851 and 1884 that served as a jail, a bootleggers'…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Matthews, Indiana
Founded in 1836 on an acre donated by William Heal, Olive Branch Cemetery — Washington Township's first cemetery, named for Heal's wife…
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…
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…
Wichita, Kansas
The Orpheum Theatre opened in downtown Wichita on September 4, 1922, designed by architect John Eberson in the atmospheric style to feel…
Cooperstown, New York
The Otesaga is a lakeside hotel in Cooperstown that once housed the Knox School for Girls. Guests report giggling in a third-floor hallway,…
Ogden, Utah
Peery's Egyptian Theater opened on July 3, 1924 on Washington Boulevard, built on the site of the Arlington Hotel after a fire and…
Spring City, Pennsylvania
Pennhurst State School and Hospital opened in 1908 and housed thousands of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities…
Los Angeles, California
The Pico House, an Italianate hotel built by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, stands in El Pueblo de Los Angeles…
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…
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…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Powder Magazine, completed in 1713, is the oldest government building in South Carolina and the last surviving piece of Charleston's…
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…
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Read House traces its history to an 1847 inn in downtown Chattanooga, and the present building opened in 1926. Its best-known story is…
Cynthiana, Kentucky
Cynthiana's Rohs Opera House began in 1871 as Aeolian Hall, and the theater was rebuilt as the "new" Rohs in 1941. Co-owner Phillip…
East Bethany, New York
Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany is the former Genesee County Poor Farm and Infirmary, which cared for the poor, sick and mentally ill…
Orlando, Florida
The ghost of Benjamin Miles, a local settler said to have died in the 1840s and buried here in an unmarked grave, is reported as a shadowy…
Forrest City, Arkansas
Built in 1906 by Dr. J. O. Rush, a physician and prominent local historian, the house was bought by the St. Francis County Cultural…
Glendale, Arizona
William Henry Bartlett came from Illinois and founded Sahuaro Ranch in 1886, building it into a working spread of fig and fruit orchards,…
San Antonio, Texas
Staff and visitors at San Fernando Cathedral have reported shadowy figures near the altar, voices with no clear source, orbs in…
San Juan Capistrano, California
Founded in 1775 and famous for the swallows that return to the mission every March, San Juan Capistrano carries a heavier history after…
Palatka, Florida
Congregants describe the ghost of an elderly former member still shuffling up the church aisle just as he did in life, and, in the nursery,…
Ocala, Florida
The Seven Sisters Inn is a bed and breakfast in the Ocala Historic District, made up of two Victorian houses, one painted purple and one…