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Savannah, GA
The 17Hundred90 Inn and Restaurant occupies three adjoining historic buildings in downtown Savannah, Georgia. The oldest section is traditionally dated to 1790, with the larger surviving structure built between 1821 and 1823 and a third addition added in 1888. The complex operates today as a fourteen-room inn and dinner restaurant.
Gettysburg, PA
The 1810 Gettysburg Academy operated at 66 W High St as an educational institution before the Battle of Gettysburg transformed its classrooms into field hospital wards. Students of theology and young women of the Female Institute were among those who learned within these walls; in 1836, Anti-Slavery Society meetings convened here. A Confederate artillery shell remains embedded in the exterior wall.
Independence, MO
Built in 1859 with two-foot-thick limestone walls, the Jackson County jail became one of the more grim Civil War sites in western Missouri. In August 1863 Union officers imprisoned women and children accused of harboring or aiding Confederate guerrillas in the building. Five of those women died on August 13, 1863, when the building partially collapsed. Bank robber Frank James was later held here for six months, and his furnished cell is preserved today. The Jackson County Historical Society operates the building as a museum.
Rugby, TN
The 1880 Newbury House is the original inn of Historic Rugby, the British-American colony founded that year by Tom Brown's School Days author Thomas Hughes. The Victorian-era building has welcomed guests almost continuously since 1880; its large downstairs parlor was used by Hughes himself to host village dinners. The site is operated by the nonprofit Historic Rugby, Inc.
Eureka Springs, AR
The 1886 Crescent Hotel was built as a luxury Victorian resort atop the Ozark mountains of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, then briefly operated as a women's college before its most notorious chapter: Norman Baker's fraudulent cancer clinic from 1937 to 1940. Baker charged dying patients for treatments that offered no medical benefit, and the hotel retains his intact basement morgue.
Eureka Springs, AR
The 1905 Basin Park Hotel is a seven-story limestone hotel in downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas, built on the site of the Perry House, an 1881 hotel that burned in 1890. The Basin Park's distinctive limestone-cut design, with every floor opening at ground level on its hillside, was featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Charleston, SC
The Battery Carriage House Inn at 20 South Battery in Charleston, South Carolina occupies an 1845 antebellum mansion steps from White Point Garden. The property survived the Civil War, duels fought nearby, and Charleston's 20th-century preservation battles. Dr. Jack Schaeffer's restoration returned the mansion to its 1800s appearance, preserving its original marble staircase and Italian mosaic floors.
Abbeville, SC
The Abbeville Opera House opened in 1908 as part of a combined Opera House and City Hall complex on Court Square. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the venue once hosted touring vaudeville circuits and silent films and continues to operate as a working community theater in upstate South Carolina.
Abilene, TX
The Paramount opened May 19, 1930, designed by Abilene architect David S. Castle in Mission/Spanish Revival style with a Spanish-Moorish interior. It closed in 1979 as downtown Abilene declined, was saved from demolition by the Abilene Preservation League, and reopened in 1987 after restoration funded by Julia Matthews and the Dodge Jones Foundation. Universal Pictures selected it to premiere the 1931 film Dracula two days before its national release.
Modesto, CA
Acacia Memorial Park was established in 1872 as the Masonic Cemetery by Stanislaus Lodge #206 Free and Accepted Masons. The cemetery expanded in the 1920s through land acquisition from the Odd Fellows Cemetery, and was officially incorporated in 1917. It remains an endowment-funded burial property.
Meadville, PA
Meadville's Academy Theatre opened in 1885 as the Academy of Music, the project of newspaper editor Ernest P. Hempstead and architect J. M. Wood. The building operated as an opera house in the late 1880s, then as a vaudeville and movie venue through the 1980s before fire damage forced its closure. The Academy Theatre Foundation, established in 1989, reopened the restored theater in 1992.
Riverton, WY
The Acme Theater was built in the 1920s in Riverton, Wyoming by Belle Mote, one of Riverton's most prominent businesswomen. Originally hosted live stage shows, vaudeville, and penny shows before transitioning to modern movie theater operations.
Louisville, KY
Actors Theatre of Louisville is the State Theatre of Kentucky and one of the country's leading regional theaters. Since 1972 it has been housed in the 1837 Greek Revival Old Bank of Louisville at 316 West Main Street, a National Historic Landmark designated in 1971, combined with an adjacent Victorian commercial building. Its 643-seat Pamela Brown Auditorium opened in October 1972 and is named for the late Louisville actress and Brown-family heiress.
Cutler, IN
Adams Mill was constructed in 1845 by John Adams as a grist mill in Cutler, Indiana. The mill operated for over 100 years producing assorted grades of flour. Today, the structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates as a museum of early rural Americana.
Afton, MN
Charles Cushing, a Civil War veteran, built the Afton House Inn in 1867 to serve railroad workers, lumbermen, and travelers along the St. Croix River. It is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Minnesota and the earliest surviving example of a modest workingman's hotel above Point Douglass, the confluence of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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Newport, RI
Castle Hill Inn, originally the Agassiz Mansion, was constructed in 1875 as a summer estate for Alexander Agassiz, a renowned marine biologist and Harvard professor. The Gilded Age mansion was designed by architect Robert H. Slack and served the Agassiz family for generations. The property later housed a naval base during World War II and was eventually converted into a luxury inn.
Colton, CA
Agua Mansa Pioneer Cemetery, established in 1852, is the oldest cemetery in San Bernardino County. It is all that remains of the twin settlements of Agua Mansa and La Placita — the first non-native communities in the San Bernardino Valley — which were obliterated by a January 1862 flood that filled the Santa Ana River from bluff to bluff. Subsequent ground-penetrating radar surveys have revealed hundreds of unmarked graves beneath the surface.
Las Vegas, NV
The Aladdin Hotel opened in Las Vegas in 1966 as a major resort and casino property. The hotel underwent renovations and continued operations until its closure in 2003. Planet Hollywood Entertainment acquired the property in 2005, completely renovating and reopening it in 2007 as Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. The 7th floor Panorama Suite emerged as the property's most paranormally active location during Aladdin Hotel operations.
Juneau, AK
The Alaskan Hotel opened in 1913 on South Franklin Street during Juneau's Gold Rush years and is the oldest operating hotel in the city. The Victorian-style building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and retains much of its original interior. The ground-floor Alaskan Bar has operated as a downtown gathering place for more than a century.
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque Little Theatre was founded in 1930 by reporter Irene Fisher with director Kathryn Kennedy O'Connor. The current building at 224 San Pasquale Avenue SW was designed by architect John Gaw Meem and completed in 1936 as the first Albuquerque structure built by the Works Progress Administration. Vivian Vance performed in the theater's inaugural production.
Pigeon Forge, TN
The museum opened in Washington, DC in 2008 as the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, founded by John Morgan and America's Most Wanted host John Walsh. It relocated to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in 2016 and rebranded as Alcatraz East. The museum houses over 500 documented true-crime artifacts across 24,000 square feet, including vehicles, personal effects, and law enforcement memorabilia.
San Francisco, CA
Alcatraz Island served as a U.S. Army military fortification and prison from 1850 through 1933, then as a federal penitentiary housing the country's most dangerous and incorrigible inmates from 1934 until its closure in 1963. During its 29 years as a federal prison, 1,576 men served time on the island, including Al Capone and Robert Stroud, the so-called Birdman of Alcatraz.
Kansas City, MO
Alexander Majors built this antebellum mansion in 1856 at the height of his success as co-owner of Russell, Majors, and Waddell — the largest overland freighting company in the American West. In 1860, Majors partnered with Russell and Waddell to launch the Pony Express, a relay mail service that operated for just 18 months before the transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete.
Port Townsend, WA
Alexander's Castle is a brick tower residence on Madrona Hill, the oldest building on Fort Worden. It was built in 1883 by Reverend John B. Alexander, rector of St. Paul Episcopal Church, reportedly for his Scottish bride-to-be. It is now a vacation rental operated by Washington State Parks within Fort Worden Historical State Park.
New York, NY
The Algonquin Hotel opened in 1902 on West 44th Street and quickly became a gathering place for the New York literary community. Beginning in 1919, writers and critics including Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, and George S. Kaufman met daily for lunch at what became known as the Round Table. Harold Ross founded The New Yorker at one of these lunches in 1925. Parker lived in the hotel periodically during the 1920s.
Waco, TX
The Amicable Life Insurance Company Building — now known as ALICO — was completed in 1911, designed by the Fort Worth and Dallas firm Sanguinet and Staats at a cost of $755,000. The 22-story, 282-foot Beaux Arts tower was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas surpassed it in 1912. It survived the May 11, 1953 Waco F5 tornado, which killed 114 people downtown, by swaying several feet without collapse.
Smock, PA
Allen's Haunted Hayrides operates on the Allen family's working dairy farm on Pittsburgh Road in Smock, in the Uniontown area of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The attraction began in October 1979, started by brothers Richard and Ronald Allen, and bills itself as one of the oldest haunted hayrides in the United States. The family still farms the property and added the Tavern of Terror haunted house in 2015.
Monticello, IL
Allerton Mansion is a 40-room Georgian Revival country house completed in 1900 on the central Illinois prairie. Designed by Philadelphia architect John Borie for Robert Allerton, heir to a Chicago banking and stockyard fortune, the 5,500-acre estate was deeded to the University of Illinois in 1946 and now operates as a public park and retreat center.
Houston, TX
The Alley Theatre company was founded in 1947 by Nina Vance in a repurposed Houston dance studio. The current building at 615 Texas Avenue opened October 13, 1968, designed by Ulrich Franzen in a Brutalist style with curved concrete walls and no right angles. On January 13, 1982, managing director Iris Siff was murdered in her office by Clifford X. Phillips, a former Alley security guard. A wrongful-death suit against the theater's security firm was settled in 1984.
Alton, IL
The Alton Haunted History Bus Tour is operated by American Hauntings, the company founded by Illinois historian and author Troy Taylor. The tour departs from the American Oddities Museum at 301 Piasa Street in Alton, Illinois, a Mississippi River town with documented 19th-century history including the Lincoln–Douglas debate site and the Alton Penitentiary.
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.
Alton, IL
Alton Hauntings was founded by paranormal author Troy Taylor and runs guided walking, bus, and dinner tours through downtown Alton, Illinois. The walking tour is based on Taylor's book Haunted Alton and surveys the riverfront town's Civil War prison history, smallpox-burial folklore, and architectural archive of nineteenth-century commercial buildings.
Alton, IL
Alton Hauntings Tours is a paranormal-tourism operator founded by author Troy Taylor in Alton, Illinois. Taylor has published more than 100 books on American hauntings and operates the Alton tours April through November alongside year-round Dinner and Spirits events.
Altoona, PA
The Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum occupies the Pennsylvania Railroad's Master Mechanics Building, a brick structure built in 1882 within the Altoona Works. The building first held railroad administrative offices and the company's Test Department — its physical and chemical testing laboratories. The museum moved into the renovated building and held grand-opening ceremonies on April 25, 1998.
Amargosa, CA
Built 1923-25 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company as a company town hub featuring a 23-room hotel and theater. The U-shaped Spanish Colonial Revival complex served miners and company officials during the borax mining era. Since 1967, it has operated as a cultural venue and hotel.
City of Industry, CA
The AMC Puente Hills 20 opened April 18, 1997 in the shell of the former Broadway Department Store at Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California. The Broadway store had been demolished by 1996 to make way for the multi-screen complex. The mall is also a recognizable filming location from the 1985 film Back to the Future.
Galena, IL
Amelia's Galena Ghost Tours has operated a shuttle-bus ghost tour of historic Galena, Illinois since 2012, departing nightly from a loading zone behind the DeSoto House Hotel. The route covers fourteen miles of the lead-mining and steamboat-era town, the wealthiest community in Illinois during Ulysses S. Grant's residency.
Galena, IL
Amelia's Galena Ghost Tours operates from a storefront on South Main Street in Galena, Illinois, a former lead-mining boomtown whose 19th-century building stock survives largely intact. The company runs shuttle, walking, dinner theater, and pub crawl programming year-round.
Madison, WI
American Ghost Walks is a multi-city tour operator founded around 2010, running guided storytelling walks across more than two dozen U.S. cities and territories, including five Wisconsin markets — Madison, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Lake Geneva, and Bayfield — plus stops in Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
Dawsonville, GA
Amicalola Falls State Park & Lodge sits in the North Georgia Mountains in Dawson County. The name comes from the Cherokee for 'tumbling waters,' referencing the 729-foot cascading waterfall — among the tallest cascading falls east of the Mississippi. The lodge was built in 1990 by the State of Georgia with 57 guestrooms and 14 cabins. The park serves as the official start of the Appalachian Trail's approach route.
New Castle, DE
The Amstel House in New Castle, Delaware was built in 1738 by John Finney. It later housed Nicholas Van Dyke, who became Delaware's seventh governor, and Kensey Johns; George Washington attended a wedding at the house in April 1784. The New Castle Historical Society — formed from a 1931 effort to save the building — operates it as a museum.
Grand Rapids, MI
The Amway Grand Plaza occupies the restored 1913 Pantlind Hotel, once named among America's top ten hotels in 1925. After decades of decline, the Amway Corporation purchased and rebuilt the property in 1981, joining the historic Pantlind Wing to a 29-story glass tower along the Grand River.
Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery was established as a Cemetery Reserve by President Woodrow Wilson in Executive Order 2242 of August 31, 1915, the same year the federal government laid out the Anchorage townsite. The first recorded burial was Francis Amestoy on July 6, 1915. The Municipality of Anchorage became the managing agency in 1979, and the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1993.
Vicksburg, MS
Anchuca is a Greek Revival mansion at 1010 First East Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi, built in 1830 in the Federal style by local politician J. W. Mauldin and enlarged in 1847 by merchant Victor Wilson with a two-story portico. The Archer family occupied the home from 1837. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the home survived the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg and was used afterward as a hospital; Jefferson Davis delivered a public address from its balcony in 1869.
Pittsburgh, PA
Anderson Manor is a circa-1830 historic home in Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood, built by or for Colonel James Anderson — best known as the man who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys on Saturday nights, including a young Andrew Carnegie. A substantial addition was built in 1905. The home was designated a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation historic landmark in 1989 and is currently stewarded by the Manchester Historical Society.
Nashville, TN
The Hermitage is the 1,120-acre plantation of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), located east of Nashville. Jackson moved to the property in 1804 and built the current Greek Revival mansion in 1819–1821, with later additions through the 1830s. The plantation operated on enslaved labor; at the time of Jackson's death in 1845, about 150 enslaved people lived and worked on the property. Rachel Donelson Jackson (1767–1828), Andrew's wife, died at the Hermitage in December 1828 and is buried in the formal garden. The Hermitage is a National Historic Landmark and one of the most-visited presidential sites in the United States.
Raleigh, NC
The Andrew Johnson Birthplace is a small late-18th-century gambrel-roof outbuilding, originally a kitchen behind Casso's Inn in downtown Raleigh, where 17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808 to farmers Jacob and Mary 'Polly' Johnson. The Johnsons lived in the building while working at Casso's Inn. The structure has since been relocated to Mordecai Historic Park, where it is preserved as a museum exhibit alongside the Mordecai House.
Savannah, GA
The Andrew Low House was completed in 1849 for Scottish-born cotton merchant Andrew Low, then one of the wealthiest men in Savannah. The Greek Revival town house hosted William Makepeace Thackeray and Robert E. Lee, and became the residence of Juliette Gordon Low — Andrew Low's daughter-in-law — who founded the Girl Scouts of the United States in the house on March 12, 1912.
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