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Wallingford, Connecticut
Local legend holds that a woman was left at the altar on her wedding day in the 1930s and, overcome with grief, drowned herself. Motorists…
Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Whisky's occupies two historic downtown buildings, one dating to around 1835 and the other around 1850, joined together over the years;…
Mitchell, Indiana
Built in 1894, this Victorian house was bought in 1899 by Dr. John Gibbons and his wife Jessie, who took in orphaned and abandoned…
Portland, Oregon
The White Eagle Saloon on North Russell Street is a McMenamins pub and music venue in a building that served the neighborhood from the…
Richmond, Kentucky
White Hall was the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, the antislavery politician and diplomat, and the nearly 10,000-square-foot mansion is…
Fieldsboro, New Jersey
White Hill Mansion is a restoration project dating to 1722 that the borough saved from demolition in 1999. It is cited among New Jersey's…
Newport, Rhode Island
The White Horse Tavern in Newport, which opened in 1673, is billed as the oldest tavern still operating in the United States. It has been a…
Washington, Washington DC
The White House, home of presidents since 1800, has a long list of ghost stories, and the White House Historical Association keeps an…
Wilmington, Vermont
The White House of Wilmington is a mansion built in 1915 as the summer home of Martin and Clara Brown and later turned into an inn. The…
Carrizozo, New Mexico
White Oaks boomed after gold and coal were found in 1879, with the Old Abe Mine and a population of up to about 2,500, and declined after…
Charleston, South Carolina
White Point Garden, at the tip of Charleston's peninsula, is the public park beside the Battery seawall. In 1718 the pirate Stede Bonnet…
Dallas, Texas
White Rock Lake, a reservoir created in 1912, is one of Dallas's best-loved parks, with trails around the water. Its best-known legend is…
Paradise, Michigan
Whitefish Point Light Station on Lake Superior marks the stretch of shoreline known as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes, where hundreds of…
Palm Beach, Florida
Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler, one of the most influential developers of Florida as a tourist destination, built this Beaux-Arts…
Paducah, Kentucky
Whitehaven began in 1865 as a brick farmhouse built by tobacco dealer Edward L. Anderson near Paducah. In 1903 businessman Edward Atkins…
Nephi, Utah
The George Carter Whitmore Mansion in Nephi was built in 1898 for a bank founder and state senator and is on the National Register of…
Sumpter, Oregon
Whitney was a lumber town that grew around a mill and became the main station of the narrow-gauge Sumpter Valley Railway after it arrived…
Detroit, Michigan
The Whitney is a Romanesque mansion in Detroit's Midtown, built in 1894 for the lumber baron David Whitney Jr., who died there in 1900, and…
Newport Beach, California
The Wild Goose is said to be haunted by John Wayne: within weeks of buying the yacht, the new owner, a local attorney, reported beer…
Washington, Washington DC
The Willard, a hotel near the White House since the 1800s and in its present building since 1901, has hosted presidents, and its lore says…
Evansville, Indiana
Willard Library opened its doors in Evansville, Indiana, in 1885, funded by a bequest from local philanthropist Willard Carpenter and built…
Eliot, Maine
The William Fogg Library in Eliot was built in 1907 with a bequest from Dr. John S. H. Fogg in memory of his father William. Library lore…
Williams, Indiana
Built in 1884 by Joseph J. Daniels, the Williams Covered Bridge is a 373-foot double-span Howe truss bridge over the East Fork of the White…
Normal, Illinois
Williams Hall is said to be haunted by Angeline Vernon "Ange" Milner, ISU's first librarian, who served from 1890 to 1928 and personally…