650 places found

Loveland, Ohio
Chateau Laroche, known as Loveland Castle, is a small stone castle on the Little Miami River built by hand from 1929 by World War I veteran…

Cheneyville, Louisiana
Loyd Hall Plantation near Cheneyville was built around 1820 by William Loyd, who was hanged by Union soldiers in 1864 on suspicion of…

Dedham, Maine
The Lucerne Inn on Route 1A in Dedham grew from a house built in the early 1800s that its owner enlarged into a tavern and inn, and it was…

Denver, Colorado
John Mouat, a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in lumber — his company put up more than 200 buildings in Denver between 1889 and…

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…

Tupelo, Mississippi
The Lyric Theatre in downtown Tupelo opened in 1912 as the Comus Theatre. On April 5, 1936, a tornado destroyed much of Tupelo and the…

Macomb, Illinois
This building at 201 North Randolph Street opened in 1926-27 as the Lamoine Hotel, Macomb's first large modern hotel, built to serve the…

West Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Madame Sherri's castle was a three-story stone chateau with Roman arches built in 1931 on Rattlesnake Mountain in Chesterfield by…

Charleston, South Carolina
Magnolia Plantation on the Ashley River has been owned by the Drayton family since the 1600s and is open as gardens, a house museum and a…

Albertville, Alabama
On April 24, 1908, during the Dixie tornado outbreak that struck much of the South, a violent tornado tore through Albertville. It killed…

Chillicothe, Ohio
The Majestic Theatre on East Main Street in downtown Chillicothe is a historic theater listed by TourismOhio as one of the state's haunted…

Manassas, Virginia
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves the grounds of the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861 and the Second Battle in August…

Mantorville, Minnesota
The Mantorville Opera House dates to 1918 and is the home of the Mantorville Theatre Company in a village that many call the most haunted…

Hartford, Connecticut
Samuel Clemens — Mark Twain — built this 25-room High Victorian Gothic mansion in 1874 and lived there with his family for 17 years,…

New Edinburg, Arkansas
Visitors to Marks' Mills Battleground State Park have reported the sound of gunfire and marching soldiers carrying through the trees. On…

Savannah, Georgia
Opened in 1851 by businesswoman Mary Marshall, the Marshall House is Savannah's oldest continuously operating hotel. It served as a…

Abingdon, Virginia
The Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon began as a private home in 1832, became Martha Washington College for women, served as a hospital for…

Sanford, Florida
Sanford architect Elton Moughton designed this hotel on Lake Monroe for Sanford's own mayor, Forrest Lake, who commissioned it for roughly…

Oak Brook, Illinois
Coal magnate Francis Stuyvesant Peabody built this Tudor Gothic mansion between 1919 and 1922, naming the estate Mayslake after his late…

Lebanon, Illinois
The Alumni House at McKendree University, founded in 1828 as Illinois's oldest college, carries a somber history: an elderly woman died…

Oregon City, Oregon
The McLoughlin House in Oregon City was the home of Dr. John McLoughlin, the Hudson's Bay Company chief factor known as the Father of…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven is one of the oldest houses in Vicksburg, built in stages from 1797 and added to in the 1830s and 1849. During the 1863 siege it…

Stevenson Ranch, California
Mentryville was an oil boomtown in Pico Canyon and is now a park with the Mentry family's restored 13-room mansion, a one-room schoolhouse…

Meridian, Mississippi
Merrehope began in 1858 as a small cottage and grew into a mansion that served as the headquarters of General Leonidas Polk during…