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Wichita, Kansas
Old Cowtown Museum, founded in 1952 on 23 acres beside the Arkansas River in Wichita, is run by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc. in…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street was built by 1771 as a customs house and exchange and was used as a prison…
Youngstown, New York
Old Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River, begun by the French in 1726 around a stone house called the French Castle, was held in…
Taylors Falls, Minnesota
The Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls occupies buildings put up between 1851 and 1884 that served as a jail, a bootleggers'…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Granbury, Texas
The Old Jail Museum on the Granbury square is a two-story limestone jail built in 1885 that held Hood County prisoners from 1886 until…
Joliet, Illinois
Designed by architect W.W. Boyington and built largely by inmate labor beginning in 1858, Old Joliet Prison operated as the Illinois State…
Galesburg, Illinois
Built in 1874 across the street from Knox College, the old Knox County Jail was purchased by the college and today houses its Center for…
Crown Point, Indiana
Visitors and investigators at the Old Lake County Jail report orbs, unexplained voices, cell doors slamming and a dog barking with no…
Logan, Ohio
Hocking Hills State Park, with its gorges, caves and waterfalls, is on TourismOhio's haunted list. Old Man's Cave is named for Richard…
Deer Lodge, Montana
The Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge opened in 1871 as the Montana Territorial Prison and held inmates until the last were moved to a new…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once…
Sacramento, California
Old Sacramento's underground spaces are the remains of ground-floor rooms buried when the city raised its streets after the 1860s floods.…
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Slater Mill, built in 1793, is the birthplace of American water-powered textile manufacturing and part of Blackstone River Valley National…
Hartford, Connecticut
Built in 1796 as Connecticut's State Capitol, the Old State House stands on the site where Alse Young was hanged in 1647 — the first person…
Little Rock, Arkansas
Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's first state capitol until a new capitol opened in 1912; it later did…
Deadwood, South Dakota
Deadwood ghost-tour guides and local TV say a spirit plays the piano in Saloon No. 10, and some believe Wild Bill Hickok's spirit never…
Bardstown, Kentucky
The Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown has served travelers since 1779 and is billed as one of the oldest stagecoach stops in the country.…
New Haven, Connecticut
Built in 1927–28 on the northeast corner of the New Haven Green, this was the city's tallest building when it opened, designed to echo the…
Virginia City, Nevada
The Old Washoe Club in Virginia City opened in June 1875 as an exclusive club for the wealthy men of the Comstock, in a building that…
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
The Old Wilkes Jail in Wilkesboro is a 19th-century brick jail, now a museum of the Wilkes Heritage Museum, and is where Tom Dula,…
Marco Island, Florida
Captain Bill opened this inn in 1896, and it has operated as a hotel and restaurant on Marco Island ever since. Guests and staff describe…
Bisbee, Arizona
Guests at the Oliver House report ghostly footsteps in the hallways at night, cold spots, a rocking chair that moves of its own accord,…
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor is a three-story Queen Anne building designed by the Portland firm of Francis H. Fassett and his son…