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Big Bay, Michigan
Big Bay Point Lighthouse stands on a bluff above Lake Superior north of Marquette and has marked this stretch of shoreline since 1896. It…
Tombstone, Arizona
The Grand Hotel opened on this spot in September 1880 as Tombstone's most luxurious lodging, and lost its upper floor to the fire that…
Ogden, Utah
The Ben Lomond Hotel opened in 1927 in downtown Ogden and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was later…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Bijou Theatre on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville is one of the city's oldest buildings, with roots in an early hotel that became a…
Asheville, North Carolina
The Biltmore Estate in Asheville is a 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau completed in 1895 for George W. Vanderbilt and still owned…
Coral Gables, Florida
The Biltmore Hotel, a National Historic Landmark completed in 1926, served as a military hospital during and after World War II before…
Independence, Missouri
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate in Independence is a historic house dating to 1852 that was once home to the artist George Caleb Bingham and…
Las Vegas, Nevada
Binion's, opened in 1951 as the Horseshoe, is a Fremont Street casino with a former hotel wing. Tour operators say Benny Binion still…
Chicago, Illinois
John Dillinger, the Depression-era bank robber and FBI's first Public Enemy Number One, was shot and killed by federal agents in the alley…
Tombstone, Arizona
The Bird Cage opened in 1881 and ran around the clock for eight years as saloon, gambling hall, brothel and theatre. By the time it closed…
Birdsville, Georgia
At Birdsville Plantation, visitors and caretakers describe children's laughter at night and doors that open and close on their own.…
Galveston, Texas
The Bishop's Palace, built in 1892 as the Gresham House for Colonel Walter Gresham, is a Victorian castle on Galveston's Broadway designed…
Freeport, Florida
Local legend holds that in the early 1900s, a young girl and her little brother cut through the graveyard next to Black Creek's old 1800s…
Antioch, California
Five coal-mining towns stood on this ground from the 1860s, and Sarah Norton was midwife to them. A Canadian immigrant, widowed and then…
Meriden, Connecticut
The legend has an unusually clear origin for a piece of regional folklore: in the winter of 1898, The Connecticut Quarterly published a…
Custer, South Dakota
The Black Hills Playhouse, in the pines of Custer State Park, is a summer theater that has staged productions since 1946 in a complex built…
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Black Point Estate on Geneva Lake is a Queen Anne summer mansion built in 1888 by the Chicago beer baron Conrad Seipp, with 13 bedrooms and…
Norfolk, Connecticut
Built in 1763 as the Moseley House-Farm, this colonial mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. A network of…
Parkersburg, West Virginia
The Blennerhassett Hotel, opened in 1889 in downtown Parkersburg, is one of West Virginia's oldest hotels and a stop on the state's…
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Blennerhassett Island in the Ohio River at Parkersburg is a state park with a reconstructed mansion on the site of Harman and Margaret…
Smyrna, Delaware
Built around the turn of the 19th century in Smyrna's Historic District, this house belonged to the prominent Blevins family before passing…
Cashmere, Washington
Blewett was a mining town of about 300 miners on Peshastin Creek, called Werner in 1893 and renamed for Seattle mine owner Edward Blewett;…
Belvedere, Illinois
Blood's Point Cemetery takes its name from Arthur Blood, the first white settler in Flora Township, who purchased the land for his farm in…
Shiloh, Tennessee
The Battle of Shiloh, fought April 6–7, 1862, left more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded or missing. Bloody Pond,…