170 places found

Indianapolis, Indiana
This site was the home of Skiles Test, a wealthy Indianapolis businessman who, after his wife's unexpected death, had her placed in a glass…

St. Augustine, Florida
Visitors and staff at the Spanish Military Hospital Museum describe flashes of light and apparitions throughout, most often a one-legged…

Valdosta, Georgia
Built around 1920 as part of the old Quitman Highway spanning the Withlacoochee River on the Lowndes-Brooks county line, this bridge was…

Mitchell, Indiana
Founded in 1814 around cave springs that never froze, Spring Mill Village became a bustling industrial hub with gristmills, a sawmill, a…

Springfield, Illinois
Built in 1951 at 101 East Lawrence and used until the company relocated to the Hoogland Center for the Arts in 2004, the Springfield…

Pensacola, Florida
At St. Michael's Cemetery, visitors report lights circling gravestones and voices heard within the cemetery at night. Officially designated…

Ashmore, Illinois
St. Omer Cemetery in Ashmore holds an unusual family monument — a large stone orb resting on a base of crisscrossed logs, marking the grave…

Wadsworth, Illinois
Old St. Patrick's Cemetery, consecrated in 1849 along Mill Creek Road, is the reputed resting place of a woman locals call Bloody Mary…

Stone Mountain, Georgia
The Stillwell House on Ridge Avenue in Stone Mountain Village, circa 1820, is believed to be one of the oldest buildings in the village. It…

Kimberly, Idaho
At Stricker Ranch, visitors report seeing figures running through the open field at certain times of night, along with a particular cabin…

Meridian, Mississippi
Stuckey's Bridge crosses the Chunky River in rural Lauderdale County, near Meridian and Enterprise. The 112-foot iron truss bridge dates to…

Ocracoke, North Carolina
Teach's Hole is the anchorage near Ocracoke Inlet where the pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was killed in a battle with Royal…

Owensboro, Kentucky
The Theatre Workshop of Owensboro performs in the Old Trinity Centre, a Gothic Revival building erected in 1875 as an Episcopal church and…

Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The TNT Area north of Point Pleasant, once the West Virginia Ordnance Works that made explosives in World War II, is now part of the…

Tokeland, Washington
The Tokeland Hotel, on the shore of Willapa Bay, is a National Register of Historic Places hotel that dates to 1885. Rooms 4 and 7 are…

Griffin, Georgia
Local legend holds that a railroad worker was decapitated by an oncoming train at this trestle, and that his spirit still searches for his…

Birmingham, Alabama
The Tutwiler name has belonged to two Birmingham buildings. Colonel Edward Tutwiler's 13-storey hotel of 1914 was downtown's first modern…

San Diego, California
Ulysses S. Grant Jr., son of the president, built this hotel in his father's name, and it opened on October 15, 1910. His wife, Fannie…

Greeley, Colorado
Founded in 1889 as the Colorado State Normal School after Greeley residents raised $11,175 to build its first building, the school was…

New Hope, Pennsylvania
The Van Sant Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Solebury Township, Bucks County, near New Hope, built in 1875. VisitPA's ghost trail…

Flagstaff, Arizona
The Weatherford opened on New Year's Day 1900 and still takes guests on North Leroux Street. William Randolph Hearst, Theodore Roosevelt,…

West Baden Springs, Indiana
The West Baden Springs Hotel, topped by a 200-foot dome that was once the largest in the world, opened in 1902 as a Gilded Age resort and…

Richmond, Kentucky
White Hall was the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, the antislavery politician and diplomat, and the nearly 10,000-square-foot mansion is…

Palm Beach, Florida
Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler, one of the most influential developers of Florida as a tourist destination, built this Beaux-Arts…