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Washington, Washington DC
Lafayette Square, the public park across from the White House, was the scene of a killing in daylight on February 27, 1859, when…
Lake Worth, Florida
Brothers Clarence and Lucien Oakley built this movie palace and vaudeville house in 1924, installing a $10,000 Wurlitzer pipe organ; the…
Berlin, Connecticut
This traprock ridge, with cliffs over 200 feet high overlooking Meriden, gets its brooding name from a 1636 incident: a member of the…
St. Paul, Minnesota
Landmark Center on Rice Park in downtown St. Paul was completed in 1902 as the federal courthouse, post office and custom house, and it was…
Marquette, Michigan
The Landmark Inn is a historic hotel on Marquette's waterfront that opened in 1930. The aviator Amelia Earhart is said to have stayed in…
Alexandria, Virginia
The Lee-Fendall House in Old Town Alexandria, built in 1785, was home to members of the Lee family for decades and later to labor leader…
Aurora, Illinois
Built in 1928 on Stolp Island, the 22-story Leland Tower was once the tallest building in Illinois outside Chicago and operated for decades…
St. Louis, Missouri
The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis was the home of the Lemp family, who built one of the city's great brewing dynasties, and a series of family…
Calabasas, California
The oldest part of this adobe dates from 1844, making it one of the last surviving adobes in the San Fernando Valley. It became the home of…
Orlando, Florida
At the Leu House, visitors on guided tours describe apparitions of Harry and Mary Jane Leu, the house's later owners,, most often seen on…
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…
Astoria, Oregon
The Liberty Theater in downtown Astoria opened in 1925 as the first theater rebuilt after the 1922 Astoria fire, and is now a nonprofit…
New Haven, Connecticut
The carousel at Lighthouse Point Park was carved around 1905 by Charles Looff and Charles Carmel and housed in a Renaissance Revival…
Belleville, Illinois
Author Troy Taylor has named the Lincoln Theatre one of the ten most haunted places in America. Once a leading stop on the vaudeville…
Springfield, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln's body arrived in Springfield for burial on May 3, 1865, and ghost sightings around his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery have…
Natchez, Mississippi
Linden is one of the oldest houses in Natchez, begun in 1785 and expanded by a series of owners, and it has been home to the Conner family…
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Little Gardens operates today as an event venue, and while local legend describes it as an 1800s plantation house, at least one historical…
Fall River, Massachusetts
The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is the home where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet on August 4, 1892; Andrew's…
Great Falls, Montana
The Lobby Bar occupies a 1914 building in downtown Great Falls whose upper floors were once a hotel. Over the decades the building was a…
Middletown, Delaware
This farmhouse northeast of Middletown was built in two phases — a Greek Revival section around 1830, with a Second Empire addition around…
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…
Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Loretta Lynn's Ranch at Hurricane Mills centers on an antebellum plantation house that the country singer bought in the 1960s and lived in…
Los Angeles, California
Visitors to the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery talk most about Kabar, Rudolph Valentino's dog: people who stop at his marker describe a dog…
Franklin, Tennessee
The Lotz House was built in 1858 by Johann Lotz, a German immigrant woodworker, and stood in the middle of the Battle of Franklin on…