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Raton, New Mexico
The Shuler Theater is a 1915 playhouse and city hall in downtown Raton, named for Dr. James Jackson Shuler, the town's first doctor and an…
Murtaugh, Idaho
Built in 1908, Sidewinders has served for most of its history as Murtaugh's main gathering spot — message center, watering hole, card room,…
Murphy, Idaho
Silver City was a gold and silver town in the Owyhee Mountains that held about 2,500 people in the 1880s and served as the Owyhee County…
Silver Cliff, Colorado
Silver Cliff Cemetery has drawn attention since the 1880s for an unexplained light that moves among its graves, first reported by a group…
Virginia City, Nevada
The Silver Queen Hotel in Virginia City was built in 1876 and is known for its Comstock-era interior. Nevada tourism guides say its ghost…
Leeds, Utah
Silver Reef was a silver-mining boomtown that grew from a camp founded in 1866 to some 2,000 people by 1879 and then faded as the mines…
Cairo, West Virginia
Silver Run Tunnel, also called Tunnel 19, is an old railroad tunnel on the North Bend Rail Trail near Cairo and a stop on West Virginia's…
Silver Springs, Florida
Silver Springs, one of Florida's oldest tourist attractions, saw Hullam Jones and Philip Morrell invent the glass-bottom boat here in 1878.…
Virginia City, Nevada
The Silver Terrace Cemeteries on the hill at the north end of Virginia City hold the burial grounds of many of the Comstock's miners,…
Juneau, Alaska
Gus Messerschmidt, an Austrian baker, opened a bakery on this Juneau block in 1898, the oldest in Alaska. He died in 1938. The building…
Indianola, Iowa
College Hall, originally the Old Chapel, is the oldest building on Simpson's campus. On May 6, 1935, Mildred "Millie" Hedges, a 22-year-old…
Pascagoula, Mississippi
The Pascagoula River is known as the Singing River for a low humming sound that people report hearing near it, especially on still…
Austell, Georgia
The Crystal Pistol Music Hall, a 1,000-seat theater built as a replica of Atlanta's 1855 Atheneum Theatre, opened with Six Flags Over…
Death Valley, California
Skidoo was a gold camp in the Panamint Range, active from 1906 to 1917, whose mill ran largely on water piped many miles from Telescope…
Indianapolis, Indiana
This site was the home of Skiles Test, a wealthy Indianapolis businessman who, after his wife's unexpected death, had her placed in a glass…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Skirvin Hilton, opened in 1911 by oilman W.B. Skirvin, is Oklahoma City's grand historic hotel. Its resident ghost is Effie, a…
Platoro, Colorado
The Skyline Lodge was built in 1945 in Platoro, a mining town in the San Juan Mountains founded in the 1880s to supply local gold and…
Hamden, Connecticut
This two-mile traprock ridge, its outcrops forming what looks from a distance like a reclining human figure — head, chin, chest, hip, knee,…
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in the Hudson Valley village of Sleepy Hollow is the resting place of Washington Irving, author of The Legend of…
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Slippery Noodle Inn opened in 1850 as the Tremont House and is Indiana's oldest bar still in its original building, listed on the…
Birmingham, Alabama
James Withers Sloss opened his Birmingham pig-iron furnace in 1882, and for nearly ninety years it ran around the clock, turning Alabama…
Everglades City, Florida
Chokoloskee residents say the island has more ghosts than living people and that many of them visit Smallwood Store at night; the one most…
Clarksville, Tennessee
The Smith-Trahern Mansion in Clarksville is an Italianate house built in the late 1850s above the Cumberland River, now owned by the city.…
Southington, Connecticut
This house on Meriden Avenue, formerly the Hallahan Funeral Home, became nationally known after the Snedeker family moved in in 1986 to be…