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Kure Beach, North Carolina
Fort Fisher is said to be haunted by General W.H.C. Whiting, the fort's commander, whose apparition is described with his distinctive…
Prospect, Maine
Fort Knox is a granite fortress on the Penobscot River in Prospect, begun in 1844 to guard the river approach and still standing as a state…
San Pedro, California
Fort MacArthur's museum occupies Battery Osgood-Farley in Angels Gate Park and interprets the coast-defense fort whose gunners fired during…
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Mackinac is a British-built military post on the bluff above Mackinac Island's harbor, begun in 1780 and later held by the United…
Baltimore, Maryland
Fort McHenry is the star-shaped fort whose defense in September 1814 inspired the national anthem, and it later served as a Civil War…
Hampton, Virginia
Fort Monroe has a long list of reported apparitions: Jefferson Davis, held here as a prisoner after the Civil War, is said to walk the…
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Fort Morgan has guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay since 1834 and saw service in nearly every American conflict from the Civil War through the…
Oswego, New York
Fort Ontario in Oswego, on Lake Ontario, dates to 1755 and saw fighting in the French and Indian War, the Revolution and the War of 1812.…
El Reno, Oklahoma
Fort Reno began in 1874 as a military camp to oversee the Cheyenne and Arapaho, later hosted Buffalo Soldiers and the Land Run of 1889, and…
Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Revere stands on Telegraph Hill in Hull, where defenses have been built since the Revolution and the remains of the fort and its…
Crawford, Nebraska
Fort Robinson in northwest Nebraska was an Army post from 1874 to 1948 and is now a state park and historic site. It is where Oglala leader…
Sidney, Nebraska
Visitors and staff at the Post Commander's Home report phantom footsteps on the narrow maids' staircase and the sound of a body falling on…
Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sill, founded in 1869 as an Army post on the southern plains, is still an active Army installation. Its Old Post Quadrangle of stone…
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Fort Stanton was an Army post founded in 1855 in the hills of Lincoln County, in the country of the Mescalero Apache and the Lincoln County…
Ticonderoga, New York
Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain was built by the French in 1755 as Fort Carillon and was fought over in the French and Indian War and…
Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor was built between 1833 and 1861 and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Its…
Port Townsend, Washington
Fort Worden, a coastal artillery fort at Port Townsend built around 1902, is now a state park, conference center and arts campus with…
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Opened by Universal Pictures on January 1, 1927, as the Strand Theatre — for more than 40 years the largest movie house in the Jonesboro…
Tucson, Arizona
The Fox opened in April 1930 as a vaudeville house and cinema, closed in 1974 as downtown Tucson emptied, stood derelict for more than two…
Joliet, Illinois
Built in 1887 from Joliet limestone by local architect and Egyptologist Frank Shaver Allen, this house at the corner of Morgan and Dewey…
Cleveland, Ohio
Franklin Castle is the Gothic Revival mansion in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood built in the 1860s for German immigrant Hannes…
French Lick, Indiana
Dr. William Bowles opened a small spa here in 1845 to capitalize on the area's natural sulfur springs; by 1901, former Indianapolis mayor…
Gakona, Alaska
Gakona Lodge was built in 1929 on the site of the earlier Doyle's Roadhouse, at the junction of the Copper and Gakona rivers, and is among…
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
The Galloway House in Fond du Lac is a 30-room Italianate mansion built in 1880 by Edwin H. Galloway and now part of a historic village run…