187 places found

La Veta, Colorado
Fort Francisco was built in La Veta in the 1870s as a fortified trading post and later became a museum of the area's pioneer history. Staff…

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…

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River in south Philadelphia, was begun in 1771 and withstood a British siege in 1777; it later held…

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…

Lake George, New York
Fort William Henry at the foot of Lake George is a reconstruction of the British fort that fell to the French in the siege of 1757, a…

Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The Frank Phillips Home is the 26-room Neoclassical mansion that Phillips Petroleum founder Frank Phillips built in downtown Bartlesville…

Alexandria, Virginia
Gadsby's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, begun in 1785, hosted George Washington and other founders and is now a city museum beside a…

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa holds the art and artifacts collected by oilman Thomas Gilcrease, who died in 1962 and is buried in a mausoleum…

Duluth, Minnesota
Visitors and staff at Glensheen describe cold spots on the stairs, flashes of light from the staircase, shadow figures, flickering lights,…

St. Joseph, Missouri
Visitors and staff at the Glore Psychiatric Museum report shadow figures in doorways, voices calling from empty rooms, a constant feeling…

Dahlonega, Georgia
Built in 1836, this building is the oldest surviving courthouse in Georgia; it served as the Lumpkin County Courthouse for over a century…

Cleveland, Ohio
The Cleveland Grays Armory was built in 1893 to house the Grays, a volunteer militia raised in the city, and now holds a military museum…

Dearborn, Michigan
Staff and former employees at Greenfield Village describe unexplained activity in several buildings: footsteps upstairs and a figure at the…

Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hammond Castle is a stone castle on the Gloucester shore built in the late 1920s by the inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. and now run as a…

Columbia, South Carolina
The Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia was built in 1818 and was home to the Hampton and Preston families, and to the enslaved people…

Sebring, Florida
Harder Hall opened in 1927 on the shore of Lake Jackson, one of the finest hotels built in South Central Florida during the 1920s land boom…

Macon, Georgia
Built between 1855 and 1859 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, the Hay House earned the nickname "Palace of the South" for its scale…

Green Bay, Wisconsin
Hazelwood is a Greek Revival house built in 1837 on a hillside overlooking the Fox River, home for a century to three generations of the…

Madison, Georgia
Built in 1811 and expanded with Greek Revival columns in the 1840s or '50s by Dr. Elijah Jones, a wealthy physician who enslaved 114 people…

Brooksville, Florida
Built starting in 1855 by John May for his wife Marena and their daughters, this four-story Victorian became the home of Marena's second…

Deadwood, South Dakota
The Historic Adams House in Deadwood is a Victorian mansion built in 1892 for Harris Franklin and later the home of the Adams family, now a…

Albany, New York
Historic Cherry Hill in Albany is a house museum built in 1787 for the Van Rensselaer family, remembered for a murder in 1827, when John…

Victor, New York
Historic Valentown is a restored 1800s village complex in Victor, centered on the old Valentown Hall, which houses a museum run by the…

Wendover, Utah
Historic Wendover Airfield was a World War II training base where the 509th Composite Group prepared for the atomic missions of 1945, and…