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Flagstaff, Arizona
The Monte Vista opened on New Year's Day 1927, one of the few American hotels built entirely with public money after a local fundraising…
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…
Prescott, Arizona
The Hotel Vendome opened in 1917 and is still a working hotel on Prescott's Cortez Street. Its ghost story belongs to Abby Byr, said to…
Darrow, Louisiana
Houmas House in Darrow is a Greek Revival mansion completed in 1840 by John Smith Preston on land that was a plantation from the late…
Akron, Ohio
The Hower House is a 28-room Second Empire mansion built in 1871 for lumber and agricultural-implement businessman John Henry Hower and now…
Mantorville, Minnesota
The Hubbell House in Mantorville has stood since 1856 and is one of the oldest restaurants in Minnesota, once a stagecoach inn on the road…
East Hartford, Connecticut
Built in 1761 by Edmund Bemont and later owned by his son Makens, a saddler, this is one of East Hartford's few surviving 18th-century…
Omaha, Nebraska
Hummel Park is a wooded city park on the bluffs north of Omaha and the subject of some of the city's best-known urban legends, collected in…
St. Cloud, Florida
At the Hunter Arms Hotel, a spirit guests and staff call Vivian is said to welcome visitors, with reports of strange noises, sudden…
Hutchinson, Kansas
The Hutchinson Public Library opened in 1901 and moved into its present building at 901 N. Main in 1951. Its best-known story concerns Ida…
Cooperstown, New York
Hyde Hall, in Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown, is a grand neoclassical mansion begun in 1817 by George Clarke and now a state…
Pocatello, Idaho
Frazier Hall, ISU's Dramatic and Fine Arts building named for Charles Frazier in 1925, is home to a ghost students and staff call Alex —…
Brigham City, Utah
The Idle Isle Cafe on Brigham City's Main Street has served as a restaurant since 1921 and is among the oldest operating restaurants in…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
In May 1803, roughly 75 captive Igbo people, purchased in Savannah by agents for planters John Couper and Thomas Spalding, were being…
Indianapolis, Indiana
In life, the first artistic director of the theatre used to jog around the upstairs mezzanine area when the weather was cold or rainy. He…
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…
Arrow Rock, Missouri
The J. Huston Tavern in Arrow Rock was built in 1834 by Judge Joseph Huston on the Santa Fe Trail and is one of the oldest continuously…
Bardstown, Kentucky
The Jailer's Inn is a bed and breakfast in the former Nelson County Jail in Bardstown. The jail, begun in 1797, held prisoners until 1987,…
Williston, North Dakota
The James Memorial Art Center in Williston, built in 1911 in the Beaux Arts style as the city's public library and listed on the National…
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…
Jekyll Island, Georgia
The Jekyll Island Club Historic District preserves the winter retreat built in the late 1800s for some of America's richest families,…
Yellow Springs, Ohio
John Bryan State Park, on the Little Miami River gorge near Yellow Springs, is on TourismOhio's haunted list for the legend of Wiley the…
Dover, Delaware
Judge Samuel Dickinson built this plantation house, later called Poplar Hall, in 1739; his son John Dickinson — the "Penman of the American…
Placerville, California
John McFarland Pearson built here in 1859, and chose the spot deliberately: the lot stood in front of an idle mine shaft, and he used the…