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Guthrie, Oklahoma
The Blue Belle Saloon on Harrison Avenue in Guthrie dates to the Land Run of 1889 and was later a bordello; the building has since reopened…
Corydon, Indiana
The Blue River — first mapped by Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's brother, and one of only three Indiana rivers on the National Natural Scenic…
Wilder, Kentucky
Bobby Mackey's Music World is a country music bar on Licking Pike in Wilder, run by singer Bobby Mackey since he bought the building in…
Bodie, California
Prospector W. S. Bodey found gold here in 1859, and by around 1880 Bodie had become one of the West's roughest boomtowns, with several…
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach was a 1950s resort town on the Salton Sea that emptied as rising salinity, flooding and fish die-offs drove residents away.…
Virginia City, Montana
The Bonanza Inn in Virginia City, Montana, stands in an 1866 building that served as the Madison County courthouse while the town was the…
Savannah, Georgia
Gracie Watson died of pneumonia in 1889 at age six; her grief-stricken father commissioned sculptor John Walz to carve a life-sized statue…
Paoli, Indiana
The gravestone of Floyd E. Pruett (1894-1920) at this Orange County cemetery bears a real, documented curiosity that's drawn folklorists'…
Grantville, Georgia
Once a bed & breakfast at 2 Post Street, Bonnie Castle has since closed its doors to overnight guests but kept its haunted reputation.…
Greencastle, Indiana
A ghostly police officer from the 1950's sits inside the graveyard along with a blue light. There is also a cave under the cemetery with a…
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Charleston ghost-tour writers list Boone Hall among the area's haunted places, with reports of apparitions and sounds near the cabins and…
Berea, Kentucky
Boone Tavern Hotel opened in 1909 as a guest house for Berea College and is still owned and run by the college, with student staff and a…
Idaho City, Idaho
At Boot Hill Cemetery, visitors say some of those who died violently still walk the grounds. Established in 1863 during the Boise Basin…
Stratford, Connecticut
Brothers David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe spent decades building an eccentric 34-acre homestead on land their family had…
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill served as Tombstone's cemetery from 1878 to 1884, taking in cowboys, miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and sex workers alike, before a…
Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida East Coast Railway engineer William T. Jones built this neoclassical and Georgian-style home in 1909 using a $6,000 railroad injury…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Bourbon Orleans Hotel stands on the site of an orphanage and convent run for 83 years by the Sisters of the Holy Family, the order…
Sumpter, Oregon
Bourne was a gold-mining camp originally called Cracker City, renamed for Oregon senator Jonathan Bourne Jr., whose nearby mines produced…
Traverse City, Michigan
Bowers Harbor Inn on the Old Mission Peninsula began as a summer home built in the 1880s by the Chicago lumberman Joseph W. Stickney and…
Lake Arrowhead, California
Bracken Fern Manor and the Tudor House at Lake Arrowhead are the surviving parts of a members-only mountain resort of the Prohibition era…
Putnam, Connecticut
The Bradley Playhouse is a community theater in downtown Putnam. Actors describe a woman in the balcony, the Lady in Blue, and reflections…
Peoria, Illinois
Bradley University's theatre program is housed in the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts. Longtime students and staff tell of the…
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Brady Theater, now often called the Tulsa Theater, is a downtown Tulsa landmark that opened in 1914 as the Convention Hall and hosted…
Saratoga, Texas
Bragg Road, known locally as Ghost Road, is a dirt road that began as a railroad bed through the Big Thicket and is famed for the Light of…