158 places found

Nebraska City, Nebraska
Seven Sisters Road is a rural county road in Otoe County south of Nebraska City, known on maps as County Road L. Local legend says a man…

Atlanta, Georgia
During a 1993 production of Henry IV, Part I at this Elizabethan-style playhouse, the actor playing Falstaff came rushing out of the men's…

Rosemont, Illinois
This 11-story atrium hotel near O'Hare Airport has a somber real history of multiple suicides by jumping from its upper floors, along with…

Oxford, New Jersey
Shippen Manor in Oxford is a stone mansion built in the 1750s for the owner of the Oxford Furnace, which made iron used in the…

Murtaugh, Idaho
Built in 1908, Sidewinders has served for most of its history as Murtaugh's main gathering spot — message center, watering hole, card room,…

Juneau, Alaska
Gus Messerschmidt, an Austrian baker, opened a bakery on this Juneau block in 1898, the oldest in Alaska. He died in 1938. The building…

Platoro, Colorado
The Skyline Lodge was built in 1945 in Platoro, a mining town in the San Juan Mountains founded in the 1880s to supply local gold and…

Louisville, Kentucky
The Speed Art Museum in Louisville was founded in 1927 by Hattie Bishop Speed, who died in 1942, and some staff say her presence remains.…

San Antonio, Texas
The St. Anthony Hotel opened in 1909 in downtown San Antonio and is one of the city's grand historic hotels. Guests and staff tell of a…

St. Augustine, Florida
Completed in 1874 on Anastasia Island, the St. Augustine Lighthouse replaced Spanish colonial watchtowers that had guided ships into the…

Colfax, Washington
St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax was built by the Sisters of Providence, who laid its cornerstone in June 1893 and ran it as the hospital…

Derby, Connecticut
The Sterling Opera House opened in 1889, held a jail beneath its stage, and closed after a 1945 fire-marshal order. It has been sealed to…

Goleta, California
The Carpenter Gothic Stow House was the headquarters of Rancho La Patera and is now home to the Goleta Valley Historical Society beside…

Skowhegan, Maine
The Strand Cinema in downtown Skowhegan opened on November 18, 1929, and has been run by Spotlight Cinemas since 2018. It is often named…

Tallahassee, Florida
Staff and students at Tallahassee Community College describe a shadow figure that appears in certain classrooms, a female presence seen…

Danbury, Connecticut
New York photographer E. Starr Sanford built this 16-room stone castle as a summer retreat between 1896 and 1899, importing Italian wood…

Minot, North Dakota
The Taube Museum of Art is an art museum in downtown Minot, in a building of the city's old business district. North Dakota tourism's…

Lincoln, Nebraska
The Temple Building on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus is commonly called the most haunted building on campus. Its theater is…

Kearney, Nebraska
The Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney is run by the Buffalo County Historical Society and gathers eight historic buildings, including the…

Weston, West Virginia
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, also called Weston State Hospital, is a huge stone Kirkbride-plan hospital that took in patients from…

San Francisco, California
Trinity was founded in 1849, the oldest Episcopal congregation on the Pacific Coast, and has occupied its building at Bush and Gough…

Whittier, California
Turnbull Canyon Road winds through the Puente Hills above Whittier, and the canyon's reputation rests on a real, well-documented disaster.…

Virginia City, Nevada
The Union Brewery, rebuilt in 1876 after fires, is one of Virginia City's longest-running saloons and was a boarding house and funeral home…

Benicia, California
Guests and staff at the Union Hotel have long reported a woman's apparition in the hallways and at a window facing the street after dark,…