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Sacramento, California
The Delta King and her identical twin, the Delta Queen, were christened on May 20, 1927, and spent the next decade running overnight…
Arcadia, California
George Woolf — "The Iceman," so called for his composure in a tight finish, and the jockey who rode Seabiscuit past War Admiral in their…
Destrehan, Louisiana
Destrehan Plantation, established in 1787 by the Destrehan family along the Mississippi River, is considered the oldest documented…
Detroit, Michigan
The Detroit Masonic Temple was designed by the architect George D. Mason and opened in 1926 after six years of construction at a cost of…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Dock Street Theatre on Church Street began as the first building in America constructed as a theater, in 1736, and burned in 1740; the…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hikers in Dogtown describe uneasy feelings and unexplained sounds, and the woods are wrapped in stories of witches: Thomazine "Tammy"…
Clare, Michigan
The Doherty Hotel in Clare opened in 1924 and became a stop for travelers heading north and, during Prohibition, a speakeasy and meeting…
St. Petersburg, Florida
Real estate developer Thomas Rowe opened the Don CeSar, known as the Pink Palace, on January 16, 1928, modeling its lobby fountain on one…
Mount Dora, Florida
The Donnelly House in Mount Dora was built in 1893 for John Donnelly, the town's first mayor, and his wife Annie, and was listed on the…
Dorrington, California
John and Rebecca Gardner built the Dorrington Hotel in 1852 as a stage stop on the Big Trees Carson Valley Road, and homesteaded the…
Waldorf, Maryland
The Mudd House is the former home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln's assassination. Reports include…
Austin, Texas
The Driskill Hotel, built in 1886 by cattleman Colonel Jesse Driskill, is a landmark of downtown Austin and has long drawn ghost stories.…
Wilmington, California
Established in January 1862 as Camp San Pedro and soon renamed Camp Drum after Lieutenant Colonel Richard Drum, this post served as Union…
Billings, Montana
The Dude Rancher Lodge is a Western-themed motor inn that opened in Billings in December 1950, built by Percival and Annabel Goan with…
Butte, Montana
The Dumas Brothel in Butte's Venus Alley district was built in 1890 and operated until 1982, making it one of the longest-running brothels…
Lynn, Massachusetts
Dungeon Rock is a cave in Lynn Woods, a large city-owned park, tied to a legend that pirates once hid there and were trapped when an…
Dunkirk, New York
Visitors and paranormal groups at the Dunkirk Lighthouse describe music playing with no source, people walking through the keeper's house…
Natchez, Mississippi
Dunleith is a Greek Revival mansion in Natchez, surrounded on all sides by columns like a classical temple. The current house was built…
Baltimore, Maryland
Edgar Allan Poe lived in this small brick rowhouse on North Amity Street in the early 1830s with his aunt Maria Clemm, and wrote some of…
DeKalb, Illinois
Built in 1928-29 during a wave of national fascination with ancient Egypt following the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, the Egyptian…
Prescott, Arizona
Staff and visitors at the Elks Opera House report unexplained voices, footsteps in empty hallways, lights turning on when no one is inside…
Memphis, Tennessee
Elmwood Cemetery, founded in 1852, is Memphis's oldest active cemetery, with some 80 acres and more than 75,000 burials, including many…
Westland, Michigan
Eloise began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse and grew into a sprawling campus of more than 70 buildings that served at different…
Stowe, Vermont
Emily's Bridge is the nickname of the Gold Brook Covered Bridge in Stowe, a one-lane wooden Howe-truss bridge built in 1844 that still…