83 haunted destinations cataloged across Iowa, spanning 47 counties. The collection features cemetery, museum, and other dark tourism site — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Bentonsport, IA
Built in 1846 by Mormon craftsmen in the Des Moines River village of Bentonsport, the Mason House Inn served steamboat travelers, sheltered freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad, and functioned as a Civil War makeshift hospital where a physician died on-site. Three subsequent owners also died in the building.
Maxwell, IA
The Washington Township Consolidated School in the hamlet of Farrar, Story County, Iowa was built in 1922 and operated as a rural elementary school for eighty years. The school closed in 2002 when the district consolidated, leaving the four-story building vacant. Subsequent owners converted it into a commercial paranormal investigation venue, and it has since become Iowa's most extensively investigated paranormal site.
Scotch Grove, IA
Edinburgh Manor in Scotch Grove, Iowa, was constructed in 1910–1911 on land originally granted in 1840 for a Jones County courthouse. The 12,000-square-foot building replaced an 1850 poor farm and operated as a county home for the elderly, disabled, and mentally ill until November 2010, when residents were transferred to a new facility.
Council Bluffs, IA
The Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail was built in 1885 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as a rotary jail with a central hand-cranked carousel of cells. It is the only three-story rotary jail ever built and one of just three surviving examples in the United States. Now a museum, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2023.
Dubuque, IA
The Mathias Ham House at 2241 Lincoln Avenue in Dubuque, Iowa, was designed by architect John F. Rague — who also designed the original Illinois and Iowa state capitols — and built in 1857 for Mathias Ham, a lead miner and riverboat operator who had arrived in Dubuque in the 1830s. The Dubuque County Historical Society opened the house as a museum in 1964.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Coe College, a private liberal arts college founded in 1851, sits in northeastern Cedar Rapids. Campus ghost lore centers on a student named Helen who died during the 1918 influenza pandemic, with her parents reportedly donating a grandfather clock to the college in her memory.
Davenport, IA
The mansion at 321 E 10th Street in Davenport is associated with Alice French, who wrote under the pen name Octave Thanet and became one of the most widely read American authors of the 1880s and 1890s. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Davenport, IA
Built in 1885 as the first structure on what would become St. Ambrose University's campus, Ambrose Hall has served the Catholic institution continuously since its founding. The building's fourth floor has accumulated campus ghost lore documented in the student newspaper since at least 1974.
Davenport, IA
The Hotel Blackhawk opened in 1915 as a luxurious eleven-story fireproof hotel on Main Street in Davenport, Iowa, built at a cost of $1 million by businessman W.F. Miller. Designed by the architectural firm Temple & Burrows with Italian Renaissance and Art Deco elements, it originally featured 225 rooms with private bathrooms. Four additional floors were added in 1920, bringing capacity to 400 rooms. The hotel hosted presidents, celebrities, and big bands throughout the twentieth century.
Davenport, IA
Constructed in 1862 as the Germania House, a gasthaus serving Davenport's growing German immigrant community, the building cycled through identities as the Miller Hotel and Arcade Hotel before being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and restored as a museum.
Davenport, IA
Built in 1922 as a Masonic Temple that also screened silent films and hosted lodge meetings, the structure stood vacant for decades before Palmer College acquired it in 1998 and opened the Palmer Family and Chiropractic History Museum inside.
Davenport, IA
Soldiers & Spirits is a walking tour of the Village of East Davenport, Iowa, run by Quad Cities operator QC Haunts & History, tying the neighborhood's Civil War-era history to reported hauntings.
Davenport, IA
Constructed for Davenport businessman William Renwick in the 1860s-1880s in Italian Revival style, the mansion commanded panoramic views of the Mississippi River. It later served as St. Katherine's School and a nursing facility before a 1997 renovation converted it to a bed-and-breakfast.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPDavenport, IA
The former Davenport city hall at 226 West 4th Street is a 19th-century civic building with a prominent bell tower. Davenport's history included episodes of extralegal violence, and the building's use for government functions over more than a century has accumulated layers of local legend.
Sioux City, IA
Briar Cliff University was co-founded in 1929 by the Sisters of Saint Francis of the Holy Family and opened in 1930. Alverno Hall, a residential building on the campus, takes its name from the Franciscan tradition of Mount Alverno.
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Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic burial ground at 28th and Cassleman on Sioux City's west side, and is the city's second-oldest cemetery. Its older, upper section — reached by a dirt cut-through — is the setting for a long-circulated 'hanging tree' headstone legend, though the claim is disputed by some visitors who say the marker is simply a tree-form stone.
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Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City dates to the early 1900s and was significant enough at its founding that its mausoleum dedication drew visitors from neighboring states. It remains an active burial ground in Woodbury County.
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Morningside University was founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Sioux City, Iowa. The Lillian E. Dimmitt Residence Hall, named for the Dean of Women who served for 26 years, was constructed in 1927 as the third-oldest building on campus. The building underwent renovation in 2015.
Sioux City, IA
The Orpheum Theatre at 528 Pierce Street in Sioux City opened in 1927 as part of the national Orpheum Circuit, one of the country's major vaudeville and early-cinema chains. The theater operated through the vaudeville era's decline into the sound-film period and beyond. It underwent a major restoration in 2001 and continues to operate as an active performance venue.
Sioux City, IA
Built more than a century ago, the Woodbury County Home served first as a county poor farm housing residents unable to support themselves, then transitioned to housing mentally ill residents as county welfare programs evolved. By 2021 it was known as Prairie Hills Facility and remained under county ownership.
Sioux City, IA
The Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, now operating as the Long Lines Family Rec Center, was designed by Knute E. Westerlind in 1938 and completed in 1950 after a difficult construction history spanning a World War II material shortage and three separate municipal bond referendums. The building was Sioux City's primary indoor concert and sports venue until the 2003 opening of Gateway Arena.
Ames, IA
C.Y. Stephens Auditorium opened in 1969 as the centerpiece of the Iowa State Center complex at Iowa State University. Construction was made possible by a major donation from Clifford Y. Stephens, a 1907 ISU alumnus who made his fortune in the dairy industry.
Ames, IA
The Farm House at Iowa State University was built around 1860 and is the oldest surviving building on campus. It served as the home of Iowa State's early faculty and administrators, including Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and his family. The building is a National Historic Landmark and now operates as a museum preserving the university's agricultural heritage.
Ames, IA
Fisher Theater in ISU's Scheman Building opened in 1969 and became the new home of ISU Theatre after the original Shattuck Theatre was demolished in 1979. The venue is named in part through association with the Iowa State Center complex and hosts the university's main stage productions.
Ames, IA
Friley Hall, opened in 1927, is Iowa State University's largest residence hall and one of the oldest on campus. It houses several thousand students across its multiple wings and has been a central piece of ISU residential life for nearly a century.
Ames, IA
The Iowa State University Memorial Union opened in 1928 as a living memorial to the 117 ISU students and alumni who died in World War I. Gold Star Hall, its central memorial space, features carved walls listing each of the fallen — including Hortense Elizabeth Wind, a dietitian who died of influenza in 1918 and is the only woman honored among the names.
Dubuque, IA
Designed in 1857 by architect John Francis Rague in the Egyptian Revival style, the Dubuque County Jail is one of only three surviving Egyptian Revival buildings in the United States. Its 18-inch limestone walls and distinctive curved-ceiling basement served as a functioning county jail for over a century. During the Civil War, Confederate prisoners were held in the basement. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, the building has operated as a museum since 1975.
Dubuque, IA
Designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and completed in 1890, the Grand Opera House is Dubuque's only surviving opera house from the Victorian era. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Dubuque, IA
The Hotel Julien's origins trace to 1839, making it Iowa's oldest continuously operating hotel. A fire in 1913 destroyed the earlier structure; the current building opened in 1915. Abraham Lincoln stayed here, and Al Capone is documented to have used the hotel during Prohibition.
Dubuque, IA
Opened in 1870 on the bluffs above Dubuque and the Mississippi River, Linwood Cemetery covers 145 acres and serves as the final resting place for several of Iowa's most prominent 19th-century figures.
Dubuque, IA
Industrialist Augustine A. Cooper built the Redstone as a 27-room Romanesque Revival duplex mansion in 1888 in Dubuque's Cathedral Historic District. The property narrowly escaped demolition in the 1980s before being converted to a bed-and-breakfast in 1985.
Iowa City, IA
The Theatre Building at the University of Iowa was constructed in the early 1930s as the home of the UI Theatre Department. It was named for Edward Charles Mabie, who founded the department and chaired it for decades, building it into one of the country's most respected MFA programs.
Iowa City, IA
Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City was incorporated in 1843 as the city's primary burial ground. Its most-photographed feature is the Black Angel, an 8.5-foot bronze monument commissioned in 1912 by Czech immigrant Teresa Feldevert, who hired Chicago sculptor Mario Korbel to memorialize her son and second husband.
Iowa City, IA
Iowa's original territorial capitol began construction in 1842 under architect John Francis Rague and served as seat of both territorial and state government until the capital moved to Des Moines in 1857. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and underwent major renovation in the 1970s, during which a tragic accident produced one of the building's enduring legends.
Iowa City, IA
Plum Grove was built in 1844 by Robert Lucas, who served as the first governor of the Territory of Iowa (1838–1841). Lucas lived at the property on 360 acres outside Iowa City until his death there in 1853. The home is now operated as a public historic site by the Iowa State Historical Society.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Brucemore is a 21-room Queen Anne mansion designed by Indianapolis architect Maximilian Allardt and constructed from 1884 to 1886 by Caroline Sinclair, widow of pioneer industrialist Thomas M. Sinclair. The structure stands on a 26-acre estate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is Iowa's only National Trust for Historic Preservation site. Significant renovations in 1905 by the Douglas family added architectural features and modernized the interior.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Built in 1905 with Carnegie funding as the Cedar Rapids Public Library, the building served as the city's main library for 80 years before conversion to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in 1985. It was the site of one of Iowa's most carefully documented crisis apparition accounts.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Oak Hill Cemetery on Mt. Vernon Road SE has served Cedar Rapids since the mid-1800s, receiving waves of Czech and Bohemian immigrants who settled the surrounding neighborhoods through the late nineteenth century.
Council Bluffs, IA
Fairview Cemetery is a 19th-century burial ground in Council Bluffs, Iowa, best known for the Black Angel at its entrance. The Black Angel is the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, an 8.5-foot bronze sculpted by Daniel Chester French and dedicated in 1918 in memory of Ruth Anne Dodge, wife of railroad engineer Grenville M. Dodge.
Council Bluffs, IA
The General Dodge House was built in 1869 for Grenville M. Dodge, the Union Civil War general who later served as chief engineer of the Union Pacific portion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The 14-room Second Empire mansion was designed by Chicago architect W.W. Boyington and cost $35,000 to construct. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Council Bluffs, IA
The Union Pacific Railroad Museum occupies the 1905 Carnegie Library building at 200 Pearl Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Built in the Beaux-Arts style and funded by Andrew Carnegie's bequest, the building served as the city's public library until a new library opened, after which Union Pacific Railroad partnered with Council Bluffs to convert the vacant Carnegie structure into the railroad's permanent museum, which opened on May 10, 2003.
Boone, IA
The Champlin Memorial Masonic Temple at 602 Story Street was built in 1907, designed by the firm Proudfoot and Bird. It served as Masonic Lodge No. 42 until 1990, when the Boone County Historical Society acquired the building and converted it into a county history museum. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Boone, IA
The Kate Shelley High Bridge — originally completed as the Boone Viaduct in 1901 — stands 185 feet above the Des Moines River near Boone, Iowa. The bridge bears the name of Kate Shelley, a 15-year-old who on July 6, 1881, crawled across a damaged bridge in a thunderstorm to warn a Chicago and North Western Railway station of a derailed locomotive, preventing a passenger train disaster. A replacement bridge built by Union Pacific opened on August 20, 2009.
Burlington, IA
The Burlington State Armory was built as a cavalry installation along the Des Moines River in Burlington, Iowa, and served the Iowa National Guard for decades. It is listed in historical records as a significant example of Iowa armory architecture. The building's current use is municipal — it houses Burlington's school bus fleet.
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Stony Hollow Road is a rural route winding through wooded bluffs on the outskirts of Burlington in Des Moines County, southeast Iowa. It is best known not for built history but as the setting of one of the state's most widely repeated ghost legends, regularly named the 'most haunted road in Iowa' by regional outlets and tourism promoters.
Cherokee, IA
The American Theatre was built in 1920 by Barry Sisk and Walter James as a movie palace on East Main Street in Cherokee, Iowa. After remaining empty due to financial constraints, Dale Goldie purchased it at a Sheriff's sale in 1923. The theatre was upgraded during the WPA era in the 1930s with dramatic murals and is now operated as the American 3 Theatre (a 3-screen multiplex) by Fridley Theatres. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cherokee, IA
Cherokee Mental Health Institute opened on August 15, 1902, as the Cherokee Lunatic Asylum, the fourth state hospital in Iowa. Designed to the Kirkbride Plan, the original building once housed 1,810 windows, 1,030 doors, and 550 rooms across a single connected structure intended for 700 patients.
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Bannwell Bridge, a rural railroad-area crossing west of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was originally known as Tara Bridge for a nearby town that no longer exists, spanning the North Lizard Creek. Its ghost tradition traces to an 1893 Fort Dodge Messenger report of railroad workers hearing phantom sounds. The bridge was taken down and rebuilt in 2004.
Fort Dodge, IA
The Vincent House was built in 1871 in Fort Dodge, Iowa by James and Adeline Swain, committed spiritualists who designed the property to facilitate contact with the dead. The house changed hands to the Vincent family, who shared the owners' beliefs; two members of the Vincent family — Helen and Charles Vincent — died in the house. The home was designated on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Marion, IA
Carlos O'Kelly's at 3320 Armar Drive in Marion, Iowa, occupies a site that local accounts describe as the former location of an amusement park. The current restaurant opened as part of the Carlos O'Kelly's chain, now operated by Thrive Restaurant Group, which runs locations across the Midwest.
Marion, IA
The Granger House at 970 10th Street in Marion, Iowa, was built in 1848 in the Italianate Victorian style. Charles Myers constructed the original structure; Earl Granger, a cattle rancher, purchased the property in 1876. The house remained in the hands of a single family for nearly a century, preserving most of its original 19th-century furnishings.
Newton, IA
The Capitol Theatre opened in 1927 inside the Hotel Maytag block in Newton, Iowa, built by F.L. Maytag of the appliance manufacturing family. Newton is the home city of the Maytag Corporation, and the hotel represented the family's civic investment in the downtown. The theater has operated under various names and configurations since opening.
Newton, IA
Founded in 1963, the Newton Community Theatre relocated to its current building adjacent to the YMCA in 1976, where it has operated a 250-seat auditorium for six decades of community productions.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPAckley, IA
Hazel Green Cemetery is a rural burial ground located approximately five miles south of Ackley in Hardin County, Iowa. The cemetery includes a gazebo structure that has become central to its paranormal reputation. The site reflects the pattern of small 19th-century Iowa country cemeteries established to serve dispersed farming communities.
Bertram, IA
Campbell Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in Bertram Township, Linn County, Iowa, serving the local community with graves spanning multiple generations. The cemetery features typical grave markers, landscape features including trees, and a gazebo structure providing shelter and gathering space for cemetery visitors.
Bloomfield, IA
Mars Hill Church, located on 100th Avenue in Davis County near Bloomfield, Iowa, was built between 1850 and 1857 and is one of the oldest log churches still in use west of the Mississippi River. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. An arsonist nearly destroyed the building in 2006; after two years of community fundraising and reconstruction, it was rededicated on June 8, 2008.
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Lawther Hall is a women's residence hall at the University of Northern Iowa, with construction beginning in November 1938 and the building opening in the summer of 1940. It is named for Anna B. Lawther, the first woman appointed to Iowa's State Board of Education. During World War II it housed U.S. Navy WAVES personnel.
Clear Lake, IA
Shortly after midnight on February 3, 1959, a chartered Beechcraft Bonanza carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson crashed into a cornfield outside Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all three musicians and pilot Roger Peterson. The event has been known since Don McLean's 1971 song as 'The Day the Music Died.'
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Built in 1942 on 150 acres in northern Clinton, Schick General Hospital was named for Lt. William Rhinehart Schick, the first U.S. Army Medical Corps officer killed at Pearl Harbor. At peak operation the facility processed roughly 1,600 battle casualties per week from Midwestern soldiers, closing in 1946 after the war's end.
Cresco, IA
Cresco's Commercial Club raised the money to replace a deteriorating hall with this Prairie School opera house, which opened debt-free in February 1915 with a touring musical revue and 725 seats. It has run continuously since, under six different owners, before the city took it over in 1978.
Dakota City, IA
The Humboldt County Historical Museum is operated by the Humboldt County Historical Association, founded in 1962. The centerpiece is an 1879 thirteen-room Mill Farm House decorated in Victorian style, located in Dakota City, Iowa on the east branch of the Des Moines River. The campus also includes an 1882 Methodist church, 1883 schoolhouse, log cabin, blacksmith shop, and a larger Clancy-Erickson building of military and Native American exhibits.
Denison, IA
The Hotel Denison stood on the main block of Denison, Iowa, until a New Year's Eve fire in the early 1900s destroyed the building. The site transitioned through commercial uses — including a J.C. Penney store — and now operates as an antique mall, while the Denison tourism office documents the site's fire history and paranormal reports.
Des Moines, IA
US Ghost Adventures operates its Des Moines program under the consumer brand Des Moines Ghosts, running a nightly walking tour from the Iowa State Capitol through the city's downtown and government district.
Fort Madison, IA
The Iowa State Penitentiary was established by the Iowa Territorial Legislature on January 25, 1839 in Fort Madison and operated continuously for 176 years until its closure in 2015, making it the longest continually operating prison west of the Mississippi River.
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Union Cemetery, east of Guthrie Center in Guthrie County, Iowa, was established as a private burial ground in 1885. It contains a cement-cast chair-shaped headstone, set between two graves and unmarked as belonging to either, which has become the focus of a regional 'Devil's Chair' legend.
Lake City, IA
The Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge, also called the Coon River Bridge or Lake City Bridge, is a 271-foot, three-span structure carrying Iberia Avenue over the North Raccoon River south of Lake City. Designed by Des Moines engineer James Barney Marsh in his patented rainbow-arch configuration and built by the Iowa Bridge Company in 1914 for $10,970, it was bypassed in 1985 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Larchwood, IA
Gitchie Manitou State Preserve occupies 91 acres in Lyon County, Iowa, at the extreme northwest corner of the state. Human occupation of the site spans at least 8,500 years, evidenced by projectile points, pottery shards, and 17 conical burial mounds along the Big Sioux River. The preserve was formally dedicated in 1969 and takes its name from Gichi-Manidoo, the Great Spirit of Anishinaabe tradition.
Malvern, IA
Malvern Manor in Malvern, Iowa was built in the 1870s as the private home of Isaac Ringland, elected mayor of Malvern. After his death in 1890 the property was expanded into the Cottage Hotel, then converted into a nursing home and residential care facility. It closed in 2005 after decades of operation and allegations of patient mistreatment.
Manilla, IA
The Klondike Hotel was built in 1897 in Manilla, Iowa, to serve travelers on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of Crawford County's notable surviving examples of late-nineteenth-century commercial hotel architecture.
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Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa is a 19th-century burial ground serving the Marshall County seat. The cemetery contains notable monuments dating from the Civil War era through the early twentieth century. Charles M. Baker, buried here in 1881, has become a focal point of local legend due to the distinctive reflective properties of his tombstone.
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Tedrow Cemetery is a small pioneer cemetery in Athens Township, Ringgold County, Iowa, holding 96 documented memorials including Civil War veterans and founding members of Kellerton and Mount Ayr. The cemetery sits on private property and was severely vandalized, with 40 headstones damaged in an incident costing nearly $20,000 to repair.
Muscatine, IA
Greenwood Cemetery was established in 1843 by the Town of Bloomington — later renamed Muscatine — as a five-acre burial plot. Originally called Muscatine Cemetery, it was renamed Greenwood in 1849. The cemetery has expanded to 80 acres. The Musser-donated chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Greencastle Cemetery is an old rural cemetery near North Liberty in Johnson County, east-central Iowa, associated with the historical place of Green Castle. It has seen little recent use and is documented in genealogical records.
Ottumwa, IA
Ottumwa Cemetery was established in 1857 as the city grew beyond its original downtown burial ground. Part of the nineteenth-century rural cemetery movement, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Its 1887 receiving vault — built of deep red brick and terra cotta panels in High Victorian Gothic style — served the practical purpose of storing bodies during Iowa winters when frozen ground prevented burial.
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Pleasant Ridge Cemetery is a small 19th-century burial ground a few miles north of Palo in Linn County, eastern Iowa. It is reached by a flight of stone steps that gives rise to its popular nickname, '13 Stairs' or '13 Steps' Cemetery. Among its documented burials is Thankful Blackburn (1810-1862), whose weathered headstone became the anchor of the cemetery's folklore.
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Stoneking Cemetery is a small family burial ground east of Williamson in Lucas County, Iowa, containing the graves of members of the Stoneking family. The cemetery is best known for the headstone of Joseph Stoneking, which carries a traditional memento mori epitaph common to American grave markers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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East Lawn Cemetery in Sheldon, Iowa, was established in June 1881 when Mayor Wykoff purchased ten acres in the Hartenbower Addition for $400. The cemetery became the final resting place for generations of O'Brien County residents. An archway erected in 1893 by the Ladies Cemetery Association remains a distinctive landmark. The site is currently maintained by the City of Sheldon.
Storm Lake, IA
Buena Vista University is a private liberal arts institution in Storm Lake, Iowa, established in 1891. The campus occupies a prominent location in the town's center. McAllister Cottage, a student residential building on College Avenue, was demolished and replaced with a parking lot, though its location and the associated folklore remain part of campus history.
Story City, IA
The apartment building in Story City was formerly a funeral home before being converted into a three-unit residential building. The structure's funeral home heritage remains part of its architectural and local cultural history, though specific dates of original construction and conversion are not readily available through public records.
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Vegors Cemetery sits on a ridge above the Boone River near Stratford in Webster County, Iowa. Founded in 1849, the cemetery contains the monument to Mrs. Henry Lott, the first known white woman to die in the area, and is situated atop a prehistoric site that includes five earthen mounds attributed to Woodland-period peoples.
Villisca, IA
The Villisca house at 508 E 2nd Street was the scene of eight axe murders on the night of June 9–10, 1912. Josiah and Sarah Moore and their four children, along with two overnight guests — the Stillinger sisters — were killed while sleeping. The house has been restored to its 1912 condition, including the absence of electricity and running water, and has operated as a tourist site since the mid-1990s.
Waverly, IA
Camp Ingawanas (now Ingawanis Adventure Base) is a Boy Scout camp operated by the Winnebago Council, Boy Scouts of America, serving Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, and Venturing Crews in the Waverly, Iowa area. The camp provides outdoor education and Scout programming on its facilities near Waverly.
West Union, IA
The Hardee's at 117 Hwy 150 North in West Union, Iowa, is a commercial fast food location that has operated for decades in Fayette County. No independent historical sources document a cemetery beneath the site, though local lore makes this the persistent explanation for reported employee experiences.