130 places found

Fort Bragg, California
Built in 1915 as Fort Bragg's first hospital, this redwood building on North Main Street later served the town as a maternity unit before…

Beverly Hills, California
Staff and visitors at Greystone Mansion have long reported unexplained sounds inside the house, and some describe cries heard in it at…

Groveland, California
Guests in Room 15 of the Groveland Hotel, known as Lyle's Room, report faucets turning themselves on and off, cosmetics left on the counter…

Glendora, California
After the Daughters of the American Revolution held their first monthly tea in Hamlin House, several members reported seeing a woman they…

Santa Clarita, California
La Loma de Los Vientos — "Hill of the Winds" — was completed in 1927 for the silent-film star William S. Hart: a 10,000-square-foot Spanish…

Grass Valley, California
The Golden Gate Saloon opened on this site in 1851 and has poured continuously since 1852, which makes it a serious candidate for the…

Hollywood, California
The cemetery opened in 1899 as Hollywood Cemetery, became Hollywood Memorial Park in 1939, and took its present name in 1998. Rudolph…

Hollywood, California
In September 1932, when the sign on Mount Lee still read HOLLYWOODLAND and advertised a housing development, Peg Entwistle, a 24-year-old…

Hornitos, California
Hornitos grew in the 1850s Gold Rush around a plaza, supposedly named for the "little ovens" shape of its above-ground graves. A stone…

San Diego, California
The Horton Grand is two 1880s hotels in one. The Horton Grand, built in 1886 and modelled on a hotel in Innsbruck, Austria, and the plainer…

Coronado, California
On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1892, a young woman signed the Hotel del Coronado's register as Mrs. Lottie A. Bernard of Detroit and…

Mokelumne Hill, California
Guests describe the ghost of George Léger across many of the Hotel Leger's thirteen rooms and in the saloon, most strongly in Room 7; a…

Oceanside, California
The Hunter Steakhouse stands on a hill above Buena Vista Lagoon on the site of the Buena Vista Cemetery, opened in 1888. At least 37 people…

Paso Robles, California
The Paso Robles area holds real, deep Indigenous history: the region was home to a Salinan village site occupied for an estimated 3,000…

Placerville, California
John McFarland Pearson built here in 1859, and chose the spot deliberately: the lot stood in front of an idle mine shaft, and he used the…

Joshua Tree, California
Guests at the Joshua Tree Inn report encounters with the ghost of Gram Parsons in Room 8, which is preserved with the mirror and photograph…

Keeler, California
Keeler was a silver-shipping town on Owens Lake, founded as Hawley and later renamed for a mill owner, and its lake steamer and zinc…

Santa Ana, California
Local guides say the Kellogg family is still present in the house, including a group of schoolchildren on a field trip who saw drawers in…

Kelso, California
Kelso grew around a Union Pacific depot where helper engines were added for the steep grade, and it faded after passenger service ended in…

Jackson, California
The Kennedy Mine was one of the deepest gold mines in North America and killed 36 workers over its years of operation; its headframe and…

Knights Ferry, California
Knights Ferry grew up around a ferry crossing on the Stanislaus River during the Gold Rush, and its 1863 covered bridge, a National…

Lompoc, California
La Purisima Mission is a reconstructed Spanish mission and living-history park in Lompoc; the 1824 Chumash uprising ended in a deadly…

Calabasas, California
The oldest part of this adobe dates from 1844, making it one of the last surviving adobes in the San Fernando Valley. It became the home of…

Los Angeles, California
Visitors to the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery talk most about Kabar, Rudolph Valentino's dog: people who stop at his marker describe a dog…