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Aurora, New York
The Aurora Inn on Cayuga Lake, built in 1833 and now a lakeside inn and restaurant, is said to be haunted by a figure known as the White…
Fort Collins, Colorado
Franklin Avery, the surveyor who laid out Fort Collins's original street grid, built this house for his family in 1879. It was a private…
Decatur, Illinois
Opened in 1916, the Avon Theatre became the life's work of Greek immigrant Gust Konstantopoulos, who ran it for five decades. Even after…
Roberts, Idaho
This building in Roberts was a hotel before the catastrophic Teton Dam collapse on June 5, 1976, which killed 11 people and devastated…
Midlothian, Illinois
Established no later than 1844, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery takes its name from corruptions of Batchelder, a prominent local family when…
Surry, Virginia
Bacon's Castle in Surry County is a brick house built in the mid-1600s and named for Bacon's Rebellion of 1676. It is a Preservation…
Bagdad, Florida
Established in 1840 in the historic mill town of Bagdad, this Santa Rosa County cemetery holds roughly 1,000 gravestones beneath old-growth…
Mineral Wells, Texas
The Baker Hotel opened in 1929 as a 14-story resort of more than 400 rooms built for the mineral-water trade in Mineral Wells, and it…
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion in Altoona was built in the 1840s for iron master Elias Baker and is now a museum of the Blair County Historical Society.…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Baker Peters Jazz Club in West Knoxville occupies a two-story Greek Revival house built in 1840 by Dr. James Harvey Baker, a local…
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Built between roughly 1190 and 1270 CE into a sandstone alcove 700 feet above Soda Canyon, Balcony House holds three plazas and 38 rooms —…
Virginia City, Montana
The Bale of Hay Saloon in Virginia City opened in 1863 and is considered Montana's oldest saloon. It stands in a historic gold-rush town…
Anna Maria Island, Florida
Local legend tells of a bride who lost her new husband to the sea while honeymooning at this Anna Maria Island resort, and who can still be…
Leesburg, Virginia
The Battle of Ball's Bluff, fought October 21, 1861, was a Union defeat in which many soldiers drowned trying to escape down the bluff into…
Trona, California
Ballarat was founded in 1896 or 1897 as a supply town for the gold mines of the Panamint Range, and was named by an Australian settler for…
Dillon, Montana
Bannack is a National Historic Landmark and the site of Montana's first major gold discovery, in July 1862, and it served as the first…
Beacon, New York
Local lore tells of ghostly lights and figures on Pollepel Island, and some tour guides say Francis Bannerman himself haunts the castle by…
Catalina Island, California
The Banning brothers owned Santa Catalina Island from 1892, and in 1910 built this house as their summer home on the hilltop above Two…
Tracy, California
The Banta Inn was built in 1879 by Frank Gallegos — reputed to have ridden with Joaquín Murrieta — as a two-storey saloon and sporting…
Warsaw, Indiana
The Barbee Hotel was considered a very high-class resort during Al Capone's time. He stayed in the hotel frequently, often clearing out all…
Fremont, Nebraska
Barnard Park in Fremont was once a cemetery and an overland camp on the Mormon Trail route. The city later turned the burial ground into a…
Adairsville, Georgia
English cotton merchant Godfrey Barnsley bought 8,000 acres of former Cherokee land in the 1840s to build this estate, though his wife…
Pierce, Idaho
Pierce, one of Idaho's oldest mining towns, has long had a reputation for its bars and cafes carrying their own ghost stories. The Cedar…
Abingdon, Virginia
The Barter Theatre in Abingdon opened in 1933, when founder Robert Porterfield began accepting produce in exchange for tickets during the…