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Chicago, IL
Chicago Hauntings Ghost Tours, now operated under the American Ghost Walks brand, runs evening walking and bus tours through Chicago's Loop, Lincoln Park, and southwest suburbs. The company's flagship Original Chicago Hauntings Tour departs Saturday evenings from the Congress Plaza Hotel.
Weston, WV
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America. Construction began in 1858 on the Kirkbride plan — a 19th-century therapeutic design philosophy emphasizing fresh air, natural light, and spatial dignity for psychiatric patients. The facility opened in 1864 with intended capacity for 250 patients. At its mid-20th-century peak, it held approximately 2,600.
Long Beach, CA
The RMS Queen Mary was constructed at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard beginning in 1930, launched September 26, 1934, and sailed her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936. Requisitioned as a troopship in 1939, she carried 810,000 soldiers under the nickname 'The Grey Ghost.' The ship has been permanently moored in Long Beach, California since December 1967.
Westland, MI
Eloise opened in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse on 280 acres of farmland in Nankin Township, west of Detroit. Over the next century it grew into a self-sufficient complex of seventy-five buildings spread across 902 acres, peaking at roughly 10,000 residents during the Great Depression and combining a poorhouse, psychiatric hospital, tuberculosis sanatorium, and general hospital.
Marietta, GA
The Kennesaw House was built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse on what is now Marietta Square, adjacent to the railroad tracks that would define its Civil War history. Purchased by Dix Fletcher in 1855 and converted into the Fletcher House hotel, it served as both a staging point for the famous Great Locomotive Chase of April 1862 and as a hospital and morgue for Confederate and Union forces during Sherman's Atlanta campaign. Today it houses the Marietta History Center.
Alton, IL
Alton, Illinois, founded in 1818 on the Mississippi bluffs near St. Louis, served as a Civil War prison site and Underground Railroad stop. Its layered 19th-century history and dense surviving building stock support one of the country's most active small-town ghost-tour programs, operated by American Hauntings and based at the Mineral Springs Hotel.
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Jerome, AZ
The building at 410 Clark Street dates to the 1890s, when it served as a boarding house for workers of the United Verde Copper Company during Jerome's mining boom. It became a private residence by the mid-20th century, operated as a restaurant called the Jerome Palace in the 1970s, and reopened on May 3, 1994, as The Haunted Hamburger.
Yuma, AZ
Completed in 1917 by Mary Darcy, the Lee Hotel is a two-story, 30-room Spanish Colonial Revival building at the corner of South Main Street in downtown Yuma. It is the oldest surviving hotel building in the city and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.
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Winslow, AZ
La Posada opened in 1930 in Winslow as a Fred Harvey railroad hotel on the Santa Fe line, designed by architect Mary Colter. It closed in 1957 and was nearly demolished before being bought and restored in the late 1990s, reopening as a hotel and gallery.
Tucson, AZ
Spanish soldiers under Captain Hugh O'Conor selected the site on August 20, 1775, and construction of the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson followed the next year. After archaeological work between 2001 and 2006, the northeast corner of the fort was rebuilt and opened as a museum in 2007 at 196 N. Court Avenue.
Flagstaff, AZ
Riordan Mansion is a 13,000-square-foot Arts-and-Crafts duplex built in 1904 for the brothers Timothy and Michael Riordan, who ran the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and helped develop Flagstaff's lumber, railroad, and banking industries. The two wings, one for each brother's family, are joined by a shared central billiard room. The house was designed by Charles Whittlesey, architect of the Grand Canyon's El Tovar Hotel, and is now a state historic park.
Bisbee, AZ
St. Elmo Bar opened in 1902 in Bisbee's Brewery Gulch and is recognized as the longest continuously operating bar in Arizona. The Gulch held dozens of saloons during the copper-mining boom, and the bar has survived Prohibition and the decline of the mines.
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