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Fallon, Nevada
Middlegate Station sits on U.S. Highway 50, the Loneliest Road in America, in central Nevada, on the old Pony Express route, in a building…
Joliet, Illinois
At Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, visitors to the surviving arsenal buildings and grounds report the sound of cars that can't be seen…
Owensboro, Kentucky
The Miller House was built in 1905 for Elmer and Lizzy Miller, whose house plans the Messenger-Inquirer praised that year as a model of…
Milton, Florida
Milton Benevolent Cemetery traces back to 1844, when James R. Riley bought the land that would become it, four blocks from what's now…
Hartville, Wyoming
Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse & Spirits in Hartville, a small former mining town, is a historic restaurant and bar that says it is the…
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Minnesota State Capitol, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1905, is a Beaux-Arts landmark topped by one of the largest…
Goliad, Texas
Mission Espíritu Santo, within Goliad State Park, was a Spanish mission founded in 1722 and moved to this site in 1749. The Native peoples…
Lompoc, California
Founded on December 8, 1787, Mission La Purísima Concepción was rebuilt at its present site after the 1812 earthquake destroyed the…
Columbus, Mississippi
Mississippi University for Women, known as The W, was the first state-supported women's college in the United States. Its best-known campus…
Jefferson City, Missouri
The Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City opened in 1836 and held inmates for 168 years, becoming known as the bloodiest 47 acres…
Columbia, Missouri
Local lore says an opera singer named Carlotta, who is said to have fallen to her death, haunts the Missouri Theatre; she is said to have…
Seattle, Washington
The Moore Theatre, opened in 1907 in Seattle's Belltown and the city's oldest remaining theater, partly stands on land that was once the…
Raleigh, North Carolina
The Mordecai House in Mordecai Historic Park is a plantation house in Raleigh, home to the Mordecai family for generations and where Andrew…
New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, built in 1765, is the oldest house in Manhattan and served as George Washington's…
Billings, Montana
The Moss Mansion in Billings was built in 1903 for banker and businessman Preston B. Moss and is now a museum. Six members of the Moss…
Moundville, Alabama
Built between roughly 1120 and 1650 CE on the Black Warrior River, Moundville was once the second-largest Mississippian city in North…
Lenox, Massachusetts
The Mount in Lenox is the estate the writer Edith Wharton built in 1902 and lived in until 1911, and it is now a museum and cultural…
Bellingham, Washington
The Mount Baker Theatre in downtown Bellingham, opened in 1927, is a Spanish Moorish performing-arts palace with a clock tower. Its…
Logansport, Indiana
Established in 1854 and incorporating the older 9th Street Cemetery, which dates to 1828, Mount Hope Cemetery is reportedly the…
Forest City, Illinois
A church once stood on the site of Mt Zion Cemetery in Forest City and reportedly burned down during a service; those who died were buried…
Tremont, Illinois
Local legend at Mt. Hope Cemetery holds that one of its large stone-covered graves belongs to a church organist buried with her organ.…
Henryville, Indiana
Daniel Guthrie was murdered and buried in a shallow grave near the corner of Pixley Knob Road and Cemetery Hill outside Henryville; his…
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth was built in 1878 by members of the Peirce family after the town's earlier entertainment hall burned,…
Butte, Montana
The Myra Brothel and Hotel occupies the top floor of Tony's Tin Shop in uptown Butte, in the city's old red-light district. Ned and Mary…