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McArthur, Ohio
Hope Furnace, in Lake Hope State Park in Vinton County, is an iron furnace built in the 1850s that smelted ore until the late 1800s.…
Quapaw, Oklahoma
The Hornet Spook Light, also called the Joplin Spook Light, is a famous light that people have reported along a dirt road near the…
San Diego, California
The Horton Grand is two 1880s hotels in one. The Horton Grand, built in 1886 and modelled on a hotel in Innsbruck, Austria, and the plainer…
Coronado, California
On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1892, a young woman signed the Hotel del Coronado's register as Mrs. Lottie A. Bernard of Detroit and…
Prescott, Arizona
Whiskey Row burned on July 14, 1900, taking the hotel that stood here with it. The Hotel St. Michael opened on the same corner in 1901 and…
Paso Robles, California
The Paso Robles area holds real, deep Indigenous history: the region was home to a Salinan village site occupied for an estimated 3,000…
Honolulu, Hawaii
Queen Lili'uokalani, the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, was imprisoned in an upstairs room of 'Iolani Palace for eight…
Buffalo, New York
The Iron Island Museum is a local history museum in a former church and funeral home in Buffalo's Iron Island neighborhood, donated to the…
Hampton, New Hampshire
Island Path is a street near Hampton Beach said to be haunted by Eunice "Goody" Cole, a Hampton woman accused and imprisoned for witchcraft…
St. Louis, Missouri
Ghost stories at Jefferson Barracks tell of a sentry with a bleeding bullet hole in his head who is said to patrol the Powder Magazine, a…
Hornet, Missouri
The Joplin Spook Light, also called the Hornet Spooklight, is a glowing orange ball seen for more than a century along a gravel road near…
Lowell, Indiana
At Lake Prairie Cemetery, visitors report mists, orbs of light, and figures of the deceased, concentrated in the older southern half where…
Godfrey, Illinois
Lewis and Clark Community College sits on the former grounds of Monticello College, founded in 1835 as Monticello Seminary — the oldest…
Lewiston, Idaho
Built in 1907 as a Methodist church before becoming a theater in 1972, this building on Main Street is tied to one of Lewiston's most…
Newark, Ohio
The Licking County Historic Jail in downtown Newark is a Gothic-style brownstone jail built in 1889 with a sheriff's residence in front,…
Ashland, Oregon
Lithia Park is Ashland's creekside park of ponds, trails and old trees, laid out in the early 1900s. Travel Oregon lists it among the…
Middletown, Delaware
This farmhouse northeast of Middletown was built in two phases — a Greek Revival section around 1830, with a Second Empire addition around…
New Hope, Pennsylvania
The Logan Inn in New Hope was established in 1727 and is billed as one of the oldest continually operating inns in the United States.…
Longwood, Florida
Built in 1885 and also known as the St. George Hotel and Longwood Village Inn, the Longwood Hotel has served over the decades as a gambling…
Chicago, Illinois
The Skyscraper Building opened in 1930 as part of Mundelein College, built by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the…
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Luxor, a black glass pyramid at the south end of the Strip, opened in 1993. Las Vegas ghost lists frequently name it as one of the…
Marfa, Texas
The Marfa Lights are glowing orbs reported over the Mitchell Flat south of Highway 90 in West Texas, with accounts traced in local…
Marsing, Idaho
Visitors entering this cemetery at night describe a sudden feeling of being closed in, along with flashes of dancing light over the…
Annapolis, Maryland
Middleton Tavern in Annapolis was established in 1750 by Horatio Middleton as an inn for seafarers, and it is one of the oldest…