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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
The Octagon House in Fond du Lac is an eight-sided house from the 1850s, built in the Orson Fowler style and containing hidden passages and…
Washington, Washington DC
The Octagon, completed around 1801 for Colonel John Tayloe, served as a temporary White House for President Madison after the British…
Granite City, Illinois
Also known as Irish Cemetery, this burial ground was largely forgotten until the late 1940s, when a subdivision developer paved a road…
Ogden, Utah
Ogden City Cemetery is one of the city's oldest burial grounds. The legend most told here belongs to Flo, a young girl named Florence…
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…
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1964 as the Downtowner Motor Lodge and later operated as a Ramada Inn before SCAD acquired it as a dormitory, Oglethorpe House has…
Mansfield, Ohio
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, built between 1886 and 1910 in a Romanesque style and in use until 1990, is best known as a main…
Madison, Indiana
At the Ohio Theatre, visitors report lights floating in the balcony and screams heard around midnight. Built in 1938 on the site of an…
Ojai, California
Opened in 1923 as a Spanish Colonial-style resort that later hosted guests like Clark Gable and Judy Garland, the Ojai Valley Inn served as…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, a Dutch Colonial Revival house dedicated in 1928 near the state Capitol, is the official residence of the…
Copper Canyon, Texas
Old Alton Bridge, an iron truss bridge built in 1884 over a creek between Denton and Copper Canyon, carried traffic until 2001 and is now a…
Athens, Georgia
Founded in 1801 as Athens's original public burial ground, this cemetery served the town from roughly 1810 to 1856 with no fee required,…
Fredrica, Delaware
Delaware folklore calls him Old Bonwell — a phantom black dog said to haunt the Mid-State Road stretch of Route 12 west of Frederica,…
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Old Burial Hill in Marblehead is a hilltop cemetery in use since 1638 and filled with weathered colonial gravestones. It is tied to the…
Salem, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Old Burying Point report voices, whispers and muffled weeping, orbs of light, sudden fog, shadows drifting between the…
Orrville, Alabama
Old Cahawba was Alabama's first state capital, from 1820 to 1826, built where the Cahaba River meets the Alabama. After the capital moved…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Charleston Jail on Magazine Street was built in 1802, took its first inmates in 1803 and was a district jail for 137 years until…
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's 1821 yellow fever epidemic, which struck within weeks of the United States taking control of Florida, filled the mass…
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma's Old City Hall, an Italianate building with a clock tower completed in 1893, served as the city's government seat and now holds…
Bartow, Florida
Completed in 1909 and now home to the Polk County Historical Museum, the old courthouse stands on the same plot where, in 1886, the bodies…
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…
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, opened in 1904 and built of logs and stone beside the geyser, is a National Historic…