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Eureka Springs, Arkansas
William Duncan built the Basin Park Hotel from local limestone in 1905, on the site of the Perry House, which had burned in 1890 in the…
Hanford, California
Built in 1897 to a design by San Francisco's McDougall Brothers, the turreted Kings County Jail and sheriff's office served until 1964,…
Hammonton, New Jersey
Batsto was a Pine Barrens iron-and-glass village founded around 1766 whose furnace supplied munitions to the Continental Army and whose…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Battery Carriage House Inn, built in 1843 on South Battery, was part of a mansion's grounds and sheltered Confederate soldiers when…
Rye, Colorado
In the late summer of 1779, New Mexico's Spanish governor, Juan Bautista de Anza, led roughly 600 soldiers south from Santa Fe, joined…
Camden, New Jersey
The USS New Jersey, commissioned in 1943, is the most decorated battleship in the U.S. Navy, with service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam…
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Battleship North Carolina, commissioned in 1941 and now a museum ship on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, took part in every major…
Galveston, Texas
The Battleship Texas, commissioned in 1914, served in both world wars and is the last surviving dreadnought-era battleship. It spent…
Minonk, Illinois
Baughman Cemetery, donated by John Baughman in 1840 and maintained today by an association founded in 1926, is a small but still-active…
Kouts, Indiana
The Kankakee River crossing at Baum's Bridge has carried three successive bridges: William Eaton's original 1849 toll bridge, the first to…
San Francisco, California
Construction on the Bay Bridge began in 1933 and it opened in 1936. Its ghost story belongs to the evening of 17 October 1989, when the…
Eustis, Florida
Eustis's 518-seat State Theatre opened as a vaudeville house in 1922, with one of the largest photo-play pipe organs in the Southeast, and…
Challis, Idaho
Bayhorse was a silver camp whose smelters were fed by charcoal made in its kilns, some of the best-preserved in Idaho. Listed on the…
Aurora, Illinois
A hotel employee reported witnessing a white ball of light shoot out from behind the front office and into the lobby in the early hours of…
Orlando, Florida
At the Beacham, staff and visitors describe the ghost of an old woman seen near the stage, whose appearances come with a drastic drop in…
Preston, Idaho
On January 29, 1863, California Volunteer troops under Colonel Patrick Connor attacked a Northwestern Shoshone winter village along the…
Little Falls, New York
Beardslee Castle in the Mohawk Valley near Little Falls is a limestone castle from around 1860 that now serves as a restaurant and event…
St. Joseph, Missouri
The Beattie Mansion, known locally as the House on the Hill, is one of St. Joseph's best-known haunted places. During renovations in 2004,…
Ouray, Colorado
The Beaumont Hotel opened in Ouray on December 15, 1886, built for $75,000 by the Ouray Real Estate and Building Association. It has hosted…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter was built in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier, grandfather of the chess champion…
East Liverpool, Ohio
Beaver Creek State Park in Columbiana County preserves stone locks and towpath from the Sandy and Beaver Canal, built in the 1830s.…
Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood, the Newport summer home of the Astor family, was built in the 1850s and became famous when Caroline Astor, the Mrs. Astor of…
Newport, Rhode Island
Belcourt Castle on Bellevue Avenue is a 60-room Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s for Oliver…
Geneva, New York
Belhurst Castle is a Romanesque stone mansion on Seneca Lake, built in the 1880s and now an inn, restaurant and winery. New York ghost…