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Atlanta, Georgia
Author and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, best known for collecting and publishing the Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus tales, lived in this…
Savannah, Georgia
In Savannah's Wright Square, colonists hanged Alice Riley on January 19, 1735, for the murder of her indentured master, William Wise, who…
Rawlins, Wyoming
The Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins, the state's first penitentiary, held prisoners from 1901 to 1981, and about 200 people died here,…
Laramie, Wyoming
The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie, built in 1872, held outlaws including Butch Cassidy, and is now a state historic site. Local…
Newport, Oregon
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse in Newport, built in 1871, is Oregon's only surviving wooden lighthouse with the keeper's house attached; it was…
Yorktown, Virginia
Local ghost lore says soldiers from both the Revolution and the Civil War are seen wandering Yorktown Battlefield, and ghost-tour…
Yuma, Arizona
Open from 1876 to 1909, Yuma Territorial Prison earned the nickname "Hellhole of the West" for the more than 3,000 inmates who passed…
Las Vegas, Nevada
Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum occupies the 1938 Wengert Mansion on East Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas, bought by the Ghost Adventures…
Porterville, California
The 1891 Zalud House in Porterville is a museum with the family's original furnishings. Its haunting centers on a chair in which the…
Poland, Indiana
Founded by German immigrant settlers in 1844 as the Zion German Reformed Church, the congregation's first log building cost $25 to build;…
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Zona Heaster Shue died in 1897 near Lewisburg, and a coroner first ruled that she died of natural causes. Her mother Mary Jane Heaster…
Lewes, Delaware
The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes was built in 1931 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Dutch settlement of Zwaanendael, and its stepped…