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Presque Isle, Michigan
The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron was built in 1840 and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses in Michigan, now a museum…
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Slater Mill, built in 1793, is the birthplace of American water-powered textile manufacturing and part of Blackstone River Valley National…
Hartford, Connecticut
Built in 1796 as Connecticut's State Capitol, the Old State House stands on the site where Alse Young was hanged in 1647 — the first person…
Little Rock, Arkansas
Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's first state capitol until a new capitol opened in 1912; it later did…
Washington, Washington DC
The Old Stone House in Georgetown, built in 1765 by Christopher Layman, is the oldest standing building in Washington and has been a…
Virginia City, Nevada
The Old Washoe Club in Virginia City opened in June 1875 as an exclusive club for the wealthy men of the Comstock, in a building that…
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
The Old Wilkes Jail in Wilkesboro is a 19th-century brick jail, now a museum of the Wilkes Heritage Museum, and is where Tom Dula,…
York, Maine
The Old York Gaol, built in 1719, is the oldest surviving prison in the United States and a National Historic Landmark in York Village. It…
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion on Milwaukee's Wisconsin Avenue was built in 1892 for the brewing magnate Frederick Pabst and is now a…
Palmyra, New York
The Palmyra Historical Museum, in the old Phelps general store on Market Street, is a small museum of the village's history. New York ghost…
Canyon, Texas
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the West Texas A&M campus in Canyon is one of the largest history museums in Texas, with…
Park City, Utah
The Park City Museum on Main Street occupies the old City Hall and territorial jail, built in 1885, and visitors can step into the jail and…
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hangar 37 on Ford Island is a former seaplane hangar that survived the 1941 attack and houses the museum. Ghost Hunters investigated in…
Bentonville, Arkansas
Congressman Samuel W. Peel built this Italianate brick house in Bentonville in 1875, and it is now the Peel Museum, open to the public with…
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Pettigrew Home & Museum is the 1889 Queen Anne house of Richard F. Pettigrew, South Dakota's first U.S. senator and a leading citizen…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Pioneer Memorial Museum, run by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers across from the State Capitol, holds thousands of artifacts from Utah's…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Staff at the Pioneers Museum describe unease near what was once a manager's apartment in the building. Local telling holds that he was shot…
Brimley, Michigan
Point Iroquois Lighthouse, built in 1870 at the entrance to the St. Marys River near Sault Ste. Marie, is now a maritime museum in the…
Porter, Indiana
Built in 1871 as the Porter County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, this Italianate-and-castle-style building held prisoners starting in 1872…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Pottawattamie County Jail opened in 1885 as a "squirrel cage" rotary jail: three stacked levels of wedge-shaped cells built around a…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Powder Magazine, completed in 1713, is the oldest government building in South Carolina and the last surviving piece of Charleston's…
Cañon City, Colorado
The Museum of Colorado Prisons occupies a retired cellhouse at the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City. Visitors and staff describe…
Mankato, Minnesota
The Rensselaer D. Hubbard House in Mankato is a Second Empire mansion built in 1871 for the founder of the Hubbard Milling Company and now…
Oyster Bay, New York
Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay was the home of the Townsend family and was used during the Revolution as headquarters by British officers,…