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Meridian, Mississippi
Merrehope began in 1858 as a small cottage and grew into a mansion that served as the headquarters of General Leonidas Polk during…
Fresno, California
Visitors and staff at the Meux Home report children's laughter from the upstairs rooms, and doorknobs that go missing from several doors…
Denver, Colorado
The Molly Brown House was home to Margaret "Molly" Brown, the Titanic survivor, and is now a museum. An independent investigation found…
New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, built in 1765, is the oldest house in Manhattan and served as George Washington's…
Billings, Montana
The Moss Mansion in Billings was built in 1903 for banker and businessman Preston B. Moss and is now a museum. Six members of the Moss…
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The Mothman Museum on Main Street in Point Pleasant, opened in 2005 beside the silver Mothman statue, holds props from the film The Mothman…
Lenox, Massachusetts
The Mount in Lenox is the estate the writer Edith Wharton built in 1902 and lived in until 1911, and it is now a museum and cultural…
Omaha, Nebraska
The Museum of Shadows is a downtown Omaha museum founded by demonologist Nate Raterman and his wife Kaleigh, a psychic medium, billed as…
Montrose, Colorado
The Museum of the Mountain West is a collection of relocated buildings, saloon and carriage house founded in 1997. The owner reports…
Los Angeles, California
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park opened in 1913 and holds one of the largest natural and cultural…
Ely, Nevada
The Nevada Northern Railway in East Ely is a National Historic Landmark railroad with its original depot, engine house and steam…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum occupies the 1823 Creole townhouse where Louis Dufilho Jr., America's first licensed pharmacist, opened his…
Mobile, Alabama
Cotton broker James W. Roper built Oakleigh in 1833, a raised Greek Revival house with its main floor a storey above the ground against…
Franklin, Kentucky
Octagon Hall was built between 1847 and 1859 by Andrew Jackson Caldwell near Franklin, in an unusual eight-sided plan, and it served both…
Washington, Washington DC
The Octagon, completed around 1801 for Colonel John Tayloe, served as a temporary White House for President Madison after the British…
Ogden, Utah
Ogden Union Station, rebuilt in 1924 after a fire destroyed the earlier depot, was a major rail junction and now houses museums and…
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Old Courthouse Museum is the former Minnehaha County Courthouse, a Sioux quartzite building from the 1890s that now holds the Siouxland…
Wichita, Kansas
Old Cowtown Museum, founded in 1952 on 23 acres beside the Arkansas River in Wichita, is run by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc. in…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street was built by 1771 as a customs house and exchange and was used as a prison…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Granbury, Texas
The Old Jail Museum on the Granbury square is a two-story limestone jail built in 1885 that held Hood County prisoners from 1886 until…
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe was built in 1871 and held prisoners until 1995. VisitPA lists it among the state's haunted places for…
Smethport, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Smethport was once the McKean County jail and sheriff's residence; the front half was the sheriff's home and the…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once…