194 haunted destinations cataloged across Pennsylvania, spanning 65 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Farmington, PA
Braddock's Run Bridge sits on U.S. Route 40 near Farmington, Pennsylvania, beside the 1913 monument over General Edward Braddock's grave. Braddock died here on July 13, 1755 after the disastrous Battle of the Monongahela.
Newtown, PA
Bucks County Community College occupies the former 200-acre Tyler estate in Newtown, Pennsylvania, donated to Temple University by Stella Elkins Tyler in 1963 and acquired by Bucks County in 1965. The 60-room 1930 Tyler mansion is now Tyler Hall.
Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Central Market traces its origins to a public marketplace chartered on this site by King George II on May 1, 1742; an earlier informal market dates to 1730. The current Romanesque Revival market house at 23 North Market Street was designed by architect James H. Warner and built in 1889. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and is operated by the Central Market Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, following a transfer in 2005.
Milton, PA
The Milton Public Library has served Northumberland County since 1923, when it was established as a community institution along the West Branch Susquehanna River. The library moved into its current stone building at 541 Broadway Street — known historically as the Rose Hill property — and completed a $4 million renovation in 2012 that expanded the facility to 11,000 square feet while preserving original architectural details including two fireplaces, a wall safe, and the original front doors that now appear in the library's logo.
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.
Conneaut Lake, PA
Hotel Conneaut was established in 1903 on the grounds of Conneaut Lake Park in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, replacing an earlier Exposition Hotel. The property was expanded substantially in 1925 with the addition of a main dining room and the Crystal Ballroom. On April 29, 1943, lightning ignited a fire that destroyed the main lobby, dining room, and approximately 150 guest rooms. The hotel survived and continued operating. New ownership in 2024 brought renovations. It remains the only hotel still in operation on Conneaut Lake.
Philadelphia, PA
Baleroy Mansion is a 32-room private estate in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, occupied for most of the 20th century by the Easby family. George Meade Easby (1918 to 2005), great-grandson of Civil War General George Meade, inherited the property and cultivated its reputation as one of America's most-publicized haunted private homes.
Philadelphia, PA
Bright Hope Baptist Church was founded in 1910-1911 in North Philadelphia and has been led by three generations of the Gray family, including U.S. Congressman William H. Gray III. The current church at 1601 N. 12th Street opened in 1964.
Philadelphia, PA
Christ Church Burial Ground opened in 1719 at 5th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia. The two-acre colonial cemetery is the resting place of Benjamin Franklin and four other signers of the Declaration of Independence and remains an active cemetery of the historic Episcopal congregation founded in 1695.
Philadelphia, PA
Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829 in Philadelphia as the world's most expensive and closely studied prison, pioneering the Pennsylvania System of total solitary confinement intended to produce penitence through isolation and silence. The prison operated for 142 years, holding over 75,000 inmates including Al Capone, before closing in 1971. It has operated as a historic site since 1994.
Philadelphia, PA
Fort Mifflin on the Delaware was constructed beginning in 1771 as a British colonial fortification and was claimed by American forces at the start of the Revolutionary War. In the autumn of 1777, a garrison of roughly 400 Continental soldiers held the fort against 250 British warships for six weeks in the largest bombardment of the Revolutionary War, buying time for Washington's army to reach Valley Forge.
Philadelphia, PA
The Hill-Physick House is a free-standing Federal-style townhouse at 321 South 4th Street in Philadelphia's Society Hill, built in 1786 for Madeira wine importer Henry Hill. From 1815 to 1837 it was the home of Dr. Philip Syng Physick, the surgeon widely regarded as the father of American surgery. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and operates as a museum of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.
Philadelphia, PA
Jeanes Hospital opened on January 25, 1928, in the Fox Chase section of northeast Philadelphia, funded by an endowment in the will of Quaker philanthropist Anna T. Jeanes for treatment of "cancerous, nervous, and disabling ailments." The hospital became part of Temple University Health System in 1996; in 2019, the Pennsylvania Historical Commission placed a marker on the grounds.
Philadelphia, PA
Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia was founded in 1836 by Quaker librarian John Jay Smith as the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Scottish architect John Notman designed the 78-acre landscape and the Roman Doric gatehouse. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998.
Philadelphia, PA
The Powel House at 244 South 3rd Street in Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood was built in 1765 in the Georgian style. Samuel Powel, the last colonial-era mayor of Philadelphia and the city's first mayor after independence, purchased the home in 1769 and embellished its interior into what is often called the finest surviving Georgian townhouse in America.
Philadelphia, PA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church was completed in 1761 to relieve overcrowding at Christ Church in Old City. The Robert Smith-designed brick church and its churchyard stand on Pine Street in Society Hill. Seven Iroquois chiefs who died during the January 1793 smallpox epidemic — in Philadelphia for a diplomatic visit to President Washington — are buried in the cemetery.
Philadelphia, PA
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the 'Grand Dame of Broad Street,' opened on September 20, 1904. The hotel hosted nearly every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt onward and was Philadelphia's signature luxury destination through most of the 20th century. The July 1976 American Legion convention held there became the index event of Legionnaires' disease, killing 29 people and forcing the hotel's closure. After major renovations the building has operated under various names and is currently The Bellevue Hotel in Hyatt's Unbound Collection.
Philadelphia, PA
The Betsy Ross House at 239 Arch Street is a two-and-a-half-story Pennsylvania colonial row house built around 1740, traditionally identified as the home Betsy Ross rented from 1773 to 1786 and where, by family tradition, she sewed the first American flag. The house was preserved through a public dime-drive beginning in 1898 and donated to the City of Philadelphia in 1937. It has operated as a museum since the early twentieth century and is managed today by Historic Philadelphia, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
The Bishop White House at 309 Walnut Street was built in 1787 as the home of William White (1748-1836), rector of Christ Church and St. Peter's and the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. Bishop White stayed in Philadelphia during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic to minister to the sick alongside Dr. Benjamin Rush while many citizens of his social standing fled. The home is administered by the National Park Service as part of Independence National Historical Park.
Philadelphia, PA
Carpenters' Hall is a Georgian two-story brick meeting hall built between 1770 and 1775 by the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the country's oldest extant craft guild. It served as the meeting place of the First Continental Congress from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The Hall is still privately owned by the Carpenters' Company and operates as a free public museum within Independence National Historical Park.
Philadelphia, PA
Cliveden is a Georgian country house built 1763-1767 for Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania. The property was the centerpiece of the October 4, 1777 Battle of Germantown, when British forces fortified inside the stone house repelled George Washington's army at the cost of more than 150 American casualties on the grounds. Owned by seven generations of the Chew family until 1972, Cliveden is now operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Philadelphia, PA
Elfreth's Alley is a narrow cobblestoned street in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood, opened as a cart path between blacksmith Arthur Wells and John Gilbert's properties in 1703. It is widely cited as the oldest continuously inhabited residential street in the United States. The alley's 32 surviving Georgian and Federal-style houses were built between 1703 and 1836. A National Historic Landmark since 1966; the Elfreth's Alley Museum at numbers 124-126 preserves an 18th-century dressmaker's home.
Philadelphia, PA
Grumblethorpe is a 1744 stone-and-oak house built by Philadelphia merchant and wine importer John Wister as a summer residence in then-rural Germantown. The Wister family occupied the house for over 160 years, expanding it into a year-round home after the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. The defining historical event came during the September 1777 Battle of Germantown, when British General James Agnew was carried to the house mortally wounded and died in the front parlor; the bloodstain remains on the original floorboards. The property is now a house museum operated by the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.
Philadelphia, PA
Independence Hall was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House and became the central venue where the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and where the Constitutional Convention drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton in the Georgian style, the building is the centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
Philadelphia, PA
The Moshulu is a four-masted steel-hulled barque built in 1904 by William Hamilton & Co. in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Originally launched as the Kurt for a Hamburg shipping company, she was seized by the United States during World War I and renamed by First Lady Edith Wilson. She is the world's oldest and largest square-rigged sailing vessel still afloat and has been berthed at Penn's Landing as a restaurant since 1974.
Philadelphia, PA
Solitude House is a neoclassical villa built 1784-85 as the country retreat of John Penn — grandson of William Penn — on the west bank of the Schuylkill River. The Philadelphia Zoo opened around the house in 1874, and Solitude served as the zoo's reptile house and later as administrative offices before being restored as a preserved historic interior. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania oversees the building.
Philadelphia, PA
Washington Square is one of the five original squares laid out by William Penn's surveyor in 1682. From around 1706 until 1794 the square served as Philadelphia's primary potter's field, where the city buried the poor, enslaved African Americans, indigent travelers, and unidentified dead. During the Revolutionary War, the sexton told John Adams that upwards of 2,000 Continental and possibly British soldiers had been interred there; during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic more than 1,300 victims were laid in mass trenches. The square was renamed for George Washington in 1825 and is now administered by the National Park Service as part of Independence National Historical Park.
Pittsburgh, PA
Allegheny Cemetery was chartered on April 24, 1844, by forty prominent Pittsburgh citizens and is the fourth-oldest incorporated public cemetery in the United States. The 300-acre grounds, the oldest suburban cemetery west of the Alleghenies, contain approximately 120,000 burials, including songwriter Stephen Foster, banking-family patriarch Thomas Mellon, and Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson.
Pittsburgh, PA
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh was commissioned in 1921, with ground broken in 1926 under architect Charles Klauder. The first classes met in the building in 1931; the exterior was completed in October 1934 and formally dedicated in June 1937. At 535 feet and 42 stories, it remains the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere.
Pittsburgh, PA
The Fort Pitt Museum opened in 1969 on the site of the British colonial fort built in 1759–1761 at the strategic 'Forks of the Ohio.' The museum operates as part of the Senator John Heinz History Center and interprets the French and Indian War, Pontiac's War, and the founding of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, PA
Clayton, the Point Breeze mansion of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, became the family home in 1882 and was transformed by architect Frederick J. Osterling in 1891 into a 23-room chateau-style Gilded Age residence. The Fricks moved out in 1905. Two of their children died young — an infant and six-year-old Martha, who died at Clayton in 1891. The mansion opened to the public in 1990 through the preservation efforts of Helen Clay Frick, with 93 percent of the family's original furnishings intact.
Pittsburgh, PA
The Senator John Heinz History Center occupies a massive warehouse in Pittsburgh's Strip District that once belonged to the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company. On February 9, 1898, an ammonia-fueled explosion and fire destroyed the building, killing 11 workers. The structure was eventually rebuilt and renovated, and now serves as the largest history museum in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh, PA
UPMC Mercy, located at 1400 Locust Street in Pittsburgh, was founded on January 1, 1847 by the Sisters of Mercy, making it simultaneously the first hospital in Pittsburgh and the world's first Mercy Hospital. The institution established Western Pennsylvania's first teaching hospital with resident physicians in 1848 and merged with the UPMC health system in 2008.
Pittsburgh, PA
Point State Park covers 36 acres at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers in downtown Pittsburgh. The site held a succession of 18th-century forts: a 1754 Virginia outpost, the French Fort Duquesne, and the British Fort Pitt. George Washington identified the site for fortification in 1753, and it was the focal point of the western theater of the French and Indian War. The state park was authorized in 1945 and dedicated in 1974.
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.
Pittsburgh, PA
St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church was built 1902-1903 by the Beezer Brothers architectural firm to serve Lawrenceville's Irish and Scotch Catholic immigrant population. The Diocese of Pittsburgh deconsecrated the church in 1993. Sean Casey purchased the building in 1994 and, after two years of renovation, opened The Church Brew Works on August 1, 1996 — one of Pittsburgh's first brewpubs. The building was designated a Pittsburgh historic landmark in 2001.
Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station was built in 1898 — designed by William George Burns — as the southern terminal of the P&LE on Pittsburgh's South Side across the Monongahela from downtown. The terminal closed to commuter service on July 12, 1985. The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation converted the station into the centerpiece of the Station Square commercial complex in 1975-1976, with the main hall reopened as the Grand Concourse restaurant in 1978. The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1974).
Pittsburgh, PA
The National Aviary is the United States' only independent indoor nonprofit aviary, opened in 1952 in Pittsburgh's West Park on the North Side. The site was previously occupied by the original Western State Penitentiary (1826-1880), Pennsylvania's sister prison to Eastern State in Philadelphia. In August 1863 the prison was pressed into service to hold more than 100 Confederate cavalrymen captured during John Hunt Morgan's 1,000-mile raid; at least eight died in captivity that winter.
Pittsburgh, PA
Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in 1886, the Old Allegheny County Jail is the carceral half of Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail complex on Grant Street, an internationally significant work of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The jail operated for nearly 110 years until Allegheny County built a new facility along the Allegheny River in 1995. The original building was renovated into the Family Division of the Court of Common Pleas, with a preserved cellblock now operated as a museum by the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.
Pittsburgh, PA
The William Penn Hotel was commissioned in 1914 by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick, designed by the firm of Janssen & Abbott, and opened March 10, 1916 with 1,000 rooms across 22 stories — the largest hotel between New York and Chicago. The hotel has hosted U.S. presidents, royalty, and ten World Series-era championship teams. It joined the Omni Hotels chain and has been a member of Historic Hotels of America since 2010.
Lancaster, PA
Diagnothian Hall is one of two literary-society halls flanking Old Main on the Franklin & Marshall campus, completed in 1857 by the architectural firm Dixon, Balburnie, & Dixon. Together with Old Main and Goethean Hall, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1975 (reference 75001645). During the American Civil War, the F&M buildings served as a Union military hospital, particularly receiving wounded after the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
Lancaster, PA
Old Main is the historic central building of Franklin & Marshall College, constructed in 1854-1856 in the Gothic Revival style by the architectural firm Dixon, Balburnie, & Dixon. Together with Goethean Hall and Diagnothian Hall, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1975 (reference 75001645). The building sits on or immediately adjacent to Lancaster's pre-1834 Gallows Hill, the county's public-execution site, and served as a Civil War-era military hospital alongside its companion halls.
Lancaster, PA
The Fulton Opera House at 12 North Prince Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, opened in 1852 and is one of the longest continuously-operating theaters in the United States. The building was constructed on the foundation of Lancaster's colonial jail, where in December 1763 the Paxton Boys massacred fourteen Conestoga held in protective custody. The Fulton was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Cemetery is a 20-acre nonprofit Victorian-era cemetery established in 1846-1847 on East Lemon Street in Lancaster city. It is the burial place of Civil War Union Major General John Fulton Reynolds, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, and of early-twentieth-century modernist painter Charles Demuth, who died at his Lancaster home on October 23, 1935. The cemetery's most famous monument, the six-foot-five-inch granite statue of Augusta Bitner, stands in the northeast corner.
Lancaster, PA
The Lancaster County Prison was completed in 1851 at a cost of $110,000 and remains an operating county jail. Its architect modeled the exterior on Lancaster Castle in Lancaster, England, the namesake of the Pennsylvania city. The prison was the site of public hangings until 1912 and currently houses approximately 800 inmates. Lancaster County voters in 2021 approved planning for a replacement facility.
Lancaster, PA
The Duke Street Parking Garage at 50 North Duke Street, operated by the Lancaster Parking Authority, stands on the original burial ground of the Conestoga people murdered by the Paxton Boys in late December 1763. Following the December 27, 1763 massacre of the fourteen Conestoga sheltering in the Lancaster County workhouse (today the Fulton Theatre block), the victims were buried outside a nearby Mennonite cemetery at what is now the intersection of Chestnut and Duke. The remains were relocated in 1833 to make way for railroad construction.
Lancaster, PA
Historic Rock Ford is the preserved 1794 Georgian-style brick mansion of Revolutionary War General Edward Hand, who served as adjutant general to George Washington. The house and grounds are operated as a historic-house museum by the Rock Ford Foundation within Lancaster County Central Park. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976.
Lancaster, PA
The covered bridges near Mondale Road in Lancaster County represent 19th-century timber-framing craftsmanship built to protect wooden plank decks from weather. Hunsecker's Mill Covered Bridge, the most frequently cited in connection with the haunting legend, spans the Conestoga River and dates to 1843, making it one of Lancaster County's oldest surviving structures.
Gettysburg, PA
The National Civil War Wax Museum opened on Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in April 1962, the centennial of the Civil War. Over its 50-year run it served more than 9 million visitors before closing in 2014. After renovation, the building reopened as the Gettysburg Heritage Center in 2015, focusing on interactive exhibits about civilian experience during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, PA
Built around 1810 by tanner John F. McFarlane and expanded with an 1833 brick addition, the Farnsworth House sits on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg. During the 1863 battle, Confederate sharpshooters occupied the structure, and the south-facing wall still carries 135 bullet holes from Union counter-fire.
Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg College, founded in 1832 as Pennsylvania College, occupied much of its current campus during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Pennsylvania Hall served as a Confederate field hospital. Stevens Hall, completed in 1868, is the fourth-oldest building on campus. The former Theta Chi house at 339 Carlisle Street was converted to academic use in 2013.
Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg National Cemetery — originally Soldiers' National Cemetery — was established in 1863 to bury Union dead from the July 1863 battle. Local attorney David Wills organized the effort; landscape architect William Saunders designed the radial layout. President Abraham Lincoln dedicated the cemetery on November 19, 1863, with the Gettysburg Address. The site is now managed by the National Park Service as part of Gettysburg National Military Park.
Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg National Military Park preserves the site of the July 1-3, 1863, battle in which the Union Army of the Potomac stopped Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. Roughly 51,000 casualties were recorded across the three days. The 6,000-acre park is managed by the National Park Service and is a National Historic Landmark.
Gettysburg, PA
The Pub & Restaurant occupies a Lincoln Square storefront in downtown Gettysburg. Lisa Grim opened the current Pub in April 1996 and added a second-floor banquet space in 1998. The building was engulfed in flames in February 2001 and reopened in April 2002.
Gettysburg, PA
The Triangular Field is a three-acre triangular meadow bounded by stone walls just north of Devil's Den at Gettysburg National Military Park. On July 2, 1863, the 1st Texas and 3rd Arkansas of Robertson's Brigade charged across this ground in the fight for Houck's Ridge.
Altoona, PA
Baker Mansion is an 1849 Greek Revival stone home built by ironmaster Elias Baker, co-owner of the Allegheny Furnace ironworks. Now operated as a museum by the Blair County Historical Society, the three-story mansion preserves period furnishings and exhibits on 19th-century industry, transportation, and family life in Altoona.
Altoona, PA
Wopsononock Mountain rises above Altoona, Pennsylvania, and was crossed in the early 20th century by a narrow-gauge railroad known as the Wopsononock Railroad. The Wopsononock Hotel and observation tower at the summit, a popular Edwardian-era resort, was destroyed by fire in 1903 and not rebuilt; the summit today is occupied by communications towers. The mountain road, now Juniata Gap Road, includes the steep curve known locally as Devil's Elbow.
Altoona, PA
Fort Roberdeau was built in 1778 during the American Revolution by General Daniel Roberdeau to protect lead-mining operations in Sinking Valley that supplied the Continental Army. Occupied until about 1780, the original earthen-and-log fort eventually disappeared; the present structure is a 1970s reconstruction. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Bethlehem, PA
Moravian College's Comenius Hall was constructed in 1892 on Main Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, designed as the complete physical home for the Moravian College and Theological Seminary — classrooms, dormitories, offices, cafeteria, and gymnasium under one roof. The building is named for John Amos Comenius, a 17th-century Moravian bishop who became the philosopher of modern universal education.
Bethlehem, PA
Robert Heysham Sayre commissioned the Gothic Revival mansion at 250 Wyandotte Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1858, placing it at the center of Fountain Hill — the enclave where Bethlehem's industrial pioneers and railroad executives built their estates. Sayre, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, lived in the house until his death in 1907, raising eight children with four successive wives across nearly fifty years of residence. In 1898 he added a three-story library wing housing 15,000 volumes under a glass roof, served by a live-in librarian.
Bethlehem, PA
The Sun Inn was built in 1758 by the Moravian community of Bethlehem and quickly became a well-known inn serving Revolutionary-era travelers including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin. The Moravians built defensive tunnels in case of hostile attack, and one tunnel entrance is documented in the inn's cellar. The Sun Inn now operates as a historic museum and dining venue.
Bedford, PA
The Bedford Springs Hotel grew from a small 1806 inn around eight mineral springs in the Allegheny foothills into one of the most important resort hotels of nineteenth-century America. Eleven U.S. presidents are documented as having visited; James Buchanan made it his summer White House. After closing in 1986, the property was restored and reopened as the Omni Bedford Springs Resort in 2007.
Bedford, PA
The Jean Bonnet Tavern has operated along the Lincoln Highway in Bedford, Pennsylvania since the 1760s, making it among the oldest continuously operating taverns in the commonwealth. In 1794, the building served as a gathering point during the Whiskey Rebellion, one of the first challenges to federal authority in the new United States. The building also served as a waypoint for troops during the French and Indian War period.
Bensalem, PA
Growden Mansion, also known as Trevose Manor, was built in the 1680s on approximately 5,000 acres purchased from William Penn by Cornish settlers Lawrence and Joseph Growdon. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the mansion now operates as a museum run by the Historical Society of Bensalem Township.
Bensalem, PA
Pen Ryn Mansion was built in 1744 by shipping merchant Abraham Bickley on the Delaware River in what is now Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Originally called Belle Voir ('beautiful view' in French), the property was renamed Penn Rhyn and later passed to the Drexel and Wharton families. A third floor was added in 1790, and the estate has been a working historic site for nearly 300 years.
Bloomsburg, PA
The Inn at Turkey Hill is built around an 1839 farmhouse on a 100-acre property in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Paul Eyerly, publisher of the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, purchased the farm in 1942. His daughter opened the country inn in 1984, the year after Eyerly's death. The property now offers 23 rooms, a restaurant, and the Turkey Hill Brewing Company.
Bloomsburg, PA
The Irondale Inn occupies the 1838 brick residence built for the local ironmaster of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The Greek Revival house later served as a documented stop on the Underground Railroad before operating for years as a small bed and breakfast. As of late 2025, the inn is listed as closed.
Buckingham, PA
Hansell Road in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania was historically a gravel country road running between farm fields and woods, just off Route 413. In the late 1990s, the township widened and paved the road, and Hansell Park — a 40-acre public recreation area — was developed on adjacent farmland in 2000. Prior to development, the road was one of the most frequently cited ghost light locations in Bucks County.
Buckingham, PA
The community of Holicong takes its name from the Lenni Lenape word for the natural spring that drew indigenous encampment to this area long before European settlement. The village was known as Grintown before the early 1800s and formally became Holicong in 1881 when a post office was established. Among its historically significant structures is Mount Gilead AME Church, originally built in 1835 by runaway enslaved people and used as a station on the Underground Railroad.
Douglassville, PA
Brinton Lodge in Douglassville, Pennsylvania began as a modest farmhouse on land purchased from William Penn by the Millard family in the 1700s. In the early 20th century the Wittman family, connected to the Philadelphia iron industry, expanded it into a 28-room mansion. During Prohibition it became an exclusive gentleman's club under Reading hotelier Caleb Brinton.
Douglassville, PA
The Yellow House Hotel was built in 1801 at the junction of Routes 662 and 562 in the Oley Valley, originally serving as a stagecoach stop and country store on the Reading-to-Philadelphia route. It has continuously operated under the same name for over 220 years and lent its name to the surrounding hamlet of Yellow House, Pennsylvania.
Doylestown, PA
Fonthill Castle in Doylestown, Pennsylvania was designed and built by Henry Chapman Mercer between 1908 and 1912. Mercer, an archaeologist, anthropologist, and ceramicist, constructed the 44-room concrete structure to showcase his collection of decorative tiles and prints. The property is managed by the Bucks County Historical Society and is open year-round for guided tours.
Doylestown, PA
The Bucks County Almshouse operated at this site from 1810 to 1966 — over a century and a half of housing the county's indigent poor, elderly, and mentally ill. The complex was repurposed as Neshaminy Manor, a county nursing home, in 1966. Several original almshouse buildings remain standing, including a barn dating to 1732 that served the farm which sustained the facility.
Hershey, PA
Milton S. Hershey opened Hersheypark on May 30, 1906 as a leisure park for the workers of his new chocolate factory. It has grown into Pennsylvania's largest theme park and one of the most visited in the United States.
Hershey, PA
Milton S. Hershey formally opened The Hotel Hershey on May 26, 1933, with a dinner and dance for 400 invited guests. Construction began in 1932 and was completed in an unusually mild winter, employing up to 800 workers at a time when Hershey deliberately kept his factory town employed through the Depression. Architect D. Paul Witmer based the design on a postcard of a 30-room Mediterranean hotel that the Hersheys had admired — the result was a 170-room Spanish Colonial revival building with mosaic tiles, arched loggias, and a villa-style balcony overlooking the town of Hershey.
Johnstown, PA
Bishop McCort Catholic High School opened in 1922 as Johnstown Catholic High School under Bishop John Joseph McCort and was renamed in his honor in 1962. The school survived the 1936 Johnstown flood and now operates as an independent Catholic academy.
Johnstown, PA
The North Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was constructed between 1925 and 1932 by the Johnstown Water Company following the 1922 drought, with design work by engineers from Bethlehem Steel. The 1,000-foot-long, 105-foot-high earthen embankment dam stores 1.1 billion gallons for the Greater Johnstown Water Authority system, which serves roughly 21,500 customers. The Yoder North Fork Dam Cemetery, with 25 documented burials, lies within the watershed area.
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.
Meadville, PA
The Days Inn Meadville Conference Center occupies a two-building, 163-room property at 18360 Conneaut Lake Road in northwestern Pennsylvania. It has operated as a Days Inn-branded conference hotel for several decades, with staff accounts of paranormal activity in the main and auxiliary buildings.
New Castle, PA
The Lawrence County Home for the Aged opened October 19, 1926 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, replacing an earlier county home that had operated since 1867. The 80,000-square-foot building served as a poor farm, shelter for the homeless, county morgue, and eventually a skilled nursing home renamed Hill View Manor in 1977. Financial constraints forced closure in February 2004.
New Castle, PA
Madonna Cemetery was established for the Madonna of Czestochowa Catholic Church, a Polish-ethnic parish founded in New Castle in 1902. The cemetery lies in Union Township, Lawrence County, in a residential area at the intersection of Scotland Lane and Cameron Avenue. It is administered by the Catholic Parish Cemeteries Association in Pittsburgh.
New Hope, PA
The Inn at Phillips Mill at 2590 River Road in New Hope, Pennsylvania was built by Aaron Phillips around 1756 as a stone barn. It is part of the Phillips Mill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property has operated as an inn for several decades and is among the older continuously occupied structures in Bucks County.
New Hope, PA
The Logan Inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania was established in 1727 by John Wells as the Ferry Tavern, making it one of the five oldest continuously operated inns in the United States. Originally serving travelers crossing the Delaware River, the building was renamed the Logan Inn in 1828 in honor of Chief Logan of the Lenni-Lenape. It now operates as a 38-room boutique hotel with a full-service restaurant.
Portersville, PA
McConnells Mill State Park preserves 2,546 acres of glacially-carved gorge along Slippery Rock Creek in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. The centerpiece is an 1868 grist mill and an 1874 covered bridge. The ironworks property was developed starting in 1764 and sold to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in the 1940s, eventually becoming a state park.
Portersville, PA
Snyder Cemetery sits on land once owned by Conrad and Nancy Snyder, Swiss immigrants who arrived in western Pennsylvania in the 1770s. The cemetery is one of several abandoned settler cemeteries preserved within the boundaries of Moraine State Park, which was established in 1970 around the artificial Lake Arthur.
Slippery Rock, PA
Miller Auditorium at Slippery Rock University was named in honor of Emma Guffey Miller, a Pennsylvania Democratic Party stalwart who served as an SRU trustee for decades and helped secure state funding for eight campus buildings between 1928 and 1939. Born July 6, 1874, in Westmoreland County, she became the first woman to receive votes for a presidential nomination at a Democratic National Convention, in 1924.
Slippery Rock, PA
North Hall is a residential dormitory on the campus of Slippery Rock University in Butler County, Pennsylvania. It shares a ghostly association with Miller Auditorium as one of two buildings where the spirit of Emma Guffey Miller — the university trustee who helped build much of the SRU campus between 1928 and 1939 — is believed to manifest.
Windber, PA
The Grand Midway Hotel traces to the late 1880s in Windber, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town established by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. The building served successive functions as a train station stop, brothel, funeral parlor, bar, and reception hall before sitting vacant. In 2000, Los Angeles artist Blair Murphy purchased it on eBay and reopened it as a hotel and artist compound in 2001.
Windber, PA
The Grand Midway Hotel complex in Windber, Pennsylvania dates to the late 1880s, when it served coal miners and rail travelers in Somerset County. The building operated as a train station stop, brothel, funeral home, and reception hall before sitting vacant. Artist Blair Murphy purchased it in 2000 and transformed it into a hotel and art compound, earning multiple Guinness World Records for the installations on its roof.
York, PA
Camp Security operated as a British prisoner-of-war camp during the Revolutionary War, holding captive British soldiers. The camp represents a significant historical site related to Revolutionary War logistics and prisoner treatment.
York, PA
The Accomac Inn began as a Susquehanna River ferry crossing -- Anderson's Ferry -- with a hotel added around 1775, later known as Keesey's Ferry and Coyle's Ferry before becoming the Accomac Inn by 1875. On May 30, 1881, John Coyle Jr., the 26-year-old son of the inn's owner, shot and killed 16-year-old servant Emily Myers in the barn after she rejected him. He was hanged in Gettysburg on April 22, 1884. The inn was rebuilt after a 1935 fire and operated as a noted fine-dining restaurant until closing in 2018.
Academia, PA
Tuscarora Academy is an 1816 stone schoolhouse in the village of Academia, Juniata County, central Pennsylvania. One of the region's earliest secondary schools, it later operated as a female seminary and gives the village its name. Restored by the Juniata County Historical Society, it opened to the public as the Tuscarora Academy Museum in 1970 and is listed on visitor guides and Atlas Obscura.
Allentown, PA
The King George Inn was built around 1756-1757 as a stone tavern near the Dorneyville crossroads in what is now South Whitehall Township, on the western edge of Allentown. One of the oldest buildings in the Lehigh Valley, it served travelers and soldiers through the French and Indian War and the Revolution. It operated as a restaurant from 1960 until it closed in 2012, and the National Register-listed structure has stood vacant amid redevelopment debates.
Allenwood, PA
In March 1942, the U.S. federal government seized the town of Alvira, Pennsylvania, and surrounding farms to build the Pennsylvania Ordnance Works. The town was razed and roughly 149 concrete bunkers were built to store munitions. After the war, 4,000 acres were transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the Allenwood facility, and 3,000 acres became State Game Lands 252, where the surviving bunkers and Alvira's cemeteries are open to the public.
Beaver, PA
Mudlick Hollow in Brighton Township, Beaver County, was the site of a tragic 1800s carriage accident. According to local legend, a newlywed couple's horse-drawn buggy was spooked by an animal, rolled into a creek, and resulted in the deaths of both the bride (broken neck) and groom (crushed under horse).
Blain, PA
Pandemonium was a nineteenth-century village in Henry's Valley, in what is now Tuscarora State Forest in Perry County, Pennsylvania. German pioneers settled the area, and after I. J. McFarland built a steam tannery around 1840-1843, the community grew to roughly 100 homes with a school, sawmills, a stave mill, a store, and a church. The tannery and lumber industries peaked from about 1870 to 1900; as the forests were stripped and the rocky land proved hard to farm, residents drifted away. Beginning in 1906 the state bought up the land, and by 1922 the valley had a single resident. Today only Pioneer Cemetery and the tannery foundations remain.
Boiling Springs, PA
Boiling Springs Lake was created in the mid-1700s when area residents dammed natural springs to power an ironworks that operated until the late 1800s. The town of Boiling Springs was formally laid out in 1845. The lake's distinctive appearance results from natural limestone and basalt geology that forces groundwater to the surface, creating the characteristic bubbling effect.
Braddock, PA
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania — named for Pennsylvania Railroad president J. Edgar Thomson — occupies the site of Braddock's Field, where French and Native American forces defeated British General Edward Braddock's expedition on July 9, 1755. Andrew Carnegie opened the mill on August 22, 1875, producing steel rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The facility remains operational under U.S. Steel ownership.
Bristol, PA
The King George II Inn in Bristol, Pennsylvania began as the Ferry House in 1681, opened by Samuel Clift to serve travelers using the Bristol–New Jersey ferry crossing. It is considered the oldest continuously operated bar in Pennsylvania and one of the oldest in the United States. George Washington's troops are documented to have stopped at the inn in December 1776, days before crossing the Delaware to attack Hessian forces at Trenton.
Brownsville, PA
Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville, Pennsylvania was built in 1786 as a trading post by Jacob Bowman. Over generations the family expanded it into what is now known as the third-oldest castle in the United States. The Brownsville Historical Society manages the property today and offers seasonal guided tours.
Bryn Mawr, PA
Bryn Mawr College, founded in 1885, is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Delaware County. Merion Hall, the oldest dormitory, was built at the college's founding. In 1901, a student named Lillian Vickers died under disputed circumstances involving fire.
Buck Hill Falls, PA
The Inn at Buck Hill Falls was a Pocono resort founded in 1901 by Philadelphia Quakers, beginning as a modest lodge and growing into a 400-room destination sprawling over roughly 1,000 acres with golf, tennis, riding, and a pool. Financial decline and fires led to its closure in October 1990. After 25 years of abandonment and an arson fire in 2003, the deteriorating inn was demolished in 2016-17, leaving only a stone arch.
Camp Hill, PA
Camp Hill High School was constructed on land that historically contained a children's cemetery. During school construction, the cemetery remains were not excavated, and the burial ground remains beneath the school structure. A small metal door three feet above ground level provides access to the original dirt-floored space with burial mounds.
Carlisle, PA
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School operated from 1879 to 1918 as the U.S. government's flagship off-reservation boarding school, founded by Capt. Richard Henry Pratt under the assimilationist slogan 'Kill the Indian, save the man.' More than 10,000 Native American children from dozens of nations were sent there. At least 180 students who died of disease and hardship are buried in the school cemetery, relocated in 1927 to its present site along Claremont Road on the Carlisle Barracks grounds.
Central City, PA
Crum Cemetery lies off Crum Road in Shade Township, Somerset County, in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands, near Windber and Central City. It is the burial ground of the vanished village of Crum, a small settlement predating the Civil War. Tombstone dates place the cemetery's origins in the mid-to-late 1800s; today only the cemetery and some crumbling foundations remain of the town.
Centralia, PA
Centralia is a near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, atop an underground coal-mine fire that has been burning since May 1962. The borough's population fell from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania condemned the borough in 1992 and acquired most properties by eminent domain. The fire is estimated to be capable of burning for another 250 years.
Coatesville, PA
Hibernia is a 19th-century iron plantation in Chester County, Pennsylvania, anchored by an ironmaster's mansion redesigned in the early 20th century to resemble an English country house. The estate is on the National Register of Historic Places and is preserved as Hibernia County Park.
Columbia, PA
Mount Bethel Cemetery in Columbia, Pennsylvania is the oldest continuously used burial ground in the Columbia area. The original section, the Old Brick Burial Yard, was designated as a cemetery in 1730 by physician, poet, and Wright's Ferry resident Susanna Wright. More than 10,000 burials include over 680 veterans from nine American wars.
Conneaut Lake, PA
Hotel Conneaut opened in 1903 after the Pittsburgh & Shenango Valley Railroad began rebuilding the earlier Exposition Hotel into a larger resort. The hotel originally had 150 rooms and added a north wing with a 1,000-person dining room and a south wing with the Crystal Ballroom in 1925. On April 29, 1943, lightning struck the wooden roof and a fire destroyed more than half of it. The hotel is the last of more than a dozen hotels that once stood at Conneaut Lake Park.
Cresson, PA
The Cresson Sanatorium opened in 1913 on land donated by Andrew Carnegie as a tuberculosis treatment facility in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. The campus was repurposed in 1956 as the Lawrence F. Flick State Hospital for mental-health patients, and again in 1987 as SCI Cresson state prison, which closed in 2013. The site now operates as a legal abandoned-exploration destination.
East Brady, PA
Brady's Bend Cemetery operates as a historic burial ground in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, with interments dating to at least 1816. Nearly 2,000 graves document local genealogy, military service, and community history spanning more than two centuries.
Edinboro, PA
Lawrence Towers were built in 1974 as eight-story twin-tower residence halls at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, now PennWest Edinboro following the 2022 merger of Edinboro, Clarion, and California University of Pennsylvania into Pennsylvania Western University. The buildings are named for David L. Lawrence, former Pennsylvania governor. The towers are reportedly slated for demolition following completion of a $115 million campus housing replacement project.
Elkins Park, PA
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, designed by Horace Trumbauer for Philadelphia traction magnate Peter A.B. Widener. Built between 1897 and 1900, it housed one of the era's most significant private art collections, much of which was donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1942.
Elton, PA
Snavely Cemetery, locally known as 'Becky's Grave,' sits on Mount Airy Drive near Elton in Adams Township, Cambria County. It is the center of a regional legend about a young woman supposedly hanged as a witch. Local researchers have documented that the real 'Becky' was Rebecca Wertz Kring (1807-1892), who died with her husband Samuel in a house fire -- and who is actually buried in a different cemetery several miles away.
Ephrata, PA
Built in 1848 by Pennsylvania state senator Joseph Konigmacher as a mineral-springs homestead, the property grew by 1860 into a 400-room resort hotel that drew guests including Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan. After closing in the early 1900s it served as Ephrata's first hospital (1937-1949), then returned to use as the Spiritualist Camp Silver Belle. Most of the complex was demolished in 2004; the renovated Konigmacher mansion survives as office space beside a Hampton Inn and Applebee's.
Erie, PA
Erie Cemetery, established on May 20, 1851, is the oldest non-denominational cemetery in Erie, Pennsylvania. The 75-acre grounds are bounded by Chestnut, Cherry, 19th, and 26th Streets and contain burials reflecting more than 170 years of the city's history. The Erie Cemetery Association administers the grounds and hosts regular historical and paranormal tours.
Farmington, PA
Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, preserves the site of the July 3, 1754, battle that ended in George Washington's only surrender. The engagement was an early flashpoint in the French and Indian War. The site, managed by the National Park Service, includes a reconstructed stockade, the visitor center, and the historic Mount Washington Tavern.
Flourtown, PA
The Black Horse Inn was constructed in 1744, 32 years before American independence. General George Washington requisitioned the inn as a rest stop for his troops en route to Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. The building received significant architectural additions in 1833 and was designated a National Register historic site in 2005.
Freedom, PA
Built 1829 by Captain William Vicary, a War of 1812 U.S. Navy captain, retired Philadelphia merchant sea captain, and member of the Abolitionist Society. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974; now the home of the Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation.
Gallitzin, PA
Samuel and Jean Lemon built this substantial seven-bay stone tavern by 1834 at the eastern summit of the Allegheny Mountains, serving passengers and workers of the newly completed Allegheny Portage Railroad. The railroad operated from 1834 to 1857 as Pennsylvania's first railroad to cross the Alleghenies, using a system of inclined planes and stationary steam engines. The National Park Service acquired the property in 1966 and completed a major restoration in 1997.
Gardners, PA
Pine Grove Furnace State Park occupies 696 acres along Pennsylvania's South Mountain range in Cumberland County. Iron furnace operations began here in 1764; the park's 1829 Ironmaster's Mansion, built by Peter Ege, is one of the most historically significant structures on the property. The Appalachian Trail's exact halfway point runs through the park, which has been a state park since 1913.
Girard, PA
The Gudgeonville Covered Bridge was an 84-foot Town-lattice span built in 1868 over Elk Creek in Girard Township, Erie County. It took its name from a roadside tavern community and a much-repeated mule legend. The bridge was destroyed by arson in 2008; the wooded crossing and the nearby shale cliffs called the Devil's Backbone remain.
Glen Mills, PA
Newlin Grist Mill was built in 1704 by Quaker immigrants Nathaniel and Mary Newlin on the West Branch of Chester Creek in what is now Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The mill operated commercially until 1941, when an ice storm damaged the dam. The 160-acre site was preserved as a historical park beginning in 1956 and is now operated by the Nicholas Newlin Foundation. Five buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Gordon, PA
On April 5, 1925, hikers discovered the body of a young woman along an old logging road on Broad Mountain between Heckscherville and Gordon, Pennsylvania. The victim, judged to be between 16 and 20 years old, had been beaten and burned. She has never been identified and the case remains unsolved.
Greensburg, PA
The Courthouse Square office building in Greensburg stands on the site of the former Westmoreland County jail, which operated from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Public hangings were conducted at the earlier jail on the second floor of the prison building. Joseph Evans was hanged in front of the courthouse on April 20, 1830, an event of long county memory. The 1906 Westmoreland County Courthouse, designed by William S. Kaufman in Beaux Arts style, stands adjacent and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1978).
Harmony, PA
The Harmony Inn was built in 1856 as the Italianate-style residence of Austin Pearce, a prominent Harmony banker, mill operator, and railroad executive. Located in the town's National Historic District, the building features original black walnut and chestnut woodwork and is believed to have had the first indoor plumbing in the area. It now operates as a German-style restaurant and craft beer destination under North Country Brewing Company.
Harrisburg, PA
Opened in 1851 as the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, it was the commonwealth's first public mental hospital, created largely through the lobbying of reformer Dorothea Dix. The original Main Building followed the Kirkbride Plan and was designed by architect John Haviland; the campus later grew to more than 70 buildings on over 1,000 acres. The hospital closed in 2006, and the buildings now serve as state agency offices.
Harrison City, PA
Bushy Run Battlefield near Harrison City, Pennsylvania, was the site of a significant 1763 colonial-era military engagement. The battle involved British forces, colonists, and Native American combatants during Pontiac's War. Scottish Highland soldiers formed part of the British contingent.
Hastings, PA
The Seldom Seen Tourist Coal Mine is a working bituminous-coal tour mine in the Cambria County, Pennsylvania mountains near Hastings. The mine operates seasonal tours led by former coal miners through preserved early-twentieth-century workings, with a separately programmed Halloween dramatic tour during October.
Hermitage, PA
Hogback Road runs along the southern edge of Hermitage in Mercer County, crossing Hogback Run between Longview and Frampton roads. A rickety wooden-deck bridge from the late 1800s carried the road over the run until it was replaced by a concrete culvert in 2007-2008. The crossing is best known today for the haunted-road folklore attached to it.
Hillsville, PA
The area known as Zombie Land occupies a several-mile stretch of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, just north of the small Italian immigrant village of Hillsville, near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The legends trace to the early 1970s but are rooted in the March 1906 disappearance and murder of Pennsylvania Fish and Game Warden L. Seeley Houk, killed in Hillsville on the orders of Black Hand figure Rocco Racco in revenge for Houk having shot Racco's hunting dog. Houk's body was recovered weeks later from the Mahoning River. Racco was hanged for the murder in October 1909.
Horsham, PA
The Keith House was built between 1721 and 1722 as the country residence of Sir William Keith, the colonial governor of Pennsylvania. It is the only surviving home of a Pennsylvania colonial governor and is preserved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Graeme Park state historic site. The house and grounds are a National Historic Landmark.
Huntingdon Valley, PA
Lorimer Park is a 230-acre Montgomery County park along Pennypack Creek in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The property was donated to Montgomery County in 1940 by George Horace Lorimer, the editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who had assembled the land as a private estate. The park preserves Council Rock, a sandstone outcropping documented as a Lenape council site.
Independence, PA
Service Creek Church in Independence Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, dates to the late 18th century. The adjoining John T. Anderson Cemetery — named for pastor Dr. John Anderson, who served the congregation from 1788 to 1810 — contains graves of Revolutionary War and Civil War soldiers alongside more recent burials. Both the church and cemetery remain active.
Jim Thorpe, PA
The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania occupies the former Carbon County Jail, built in 1871 by architect Edward Haviland and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Seven men convicted as Molly Maguires were hanged here in 1877, and the building remained an active jail until 1995.
Jonestown, PA
Moonshine United Zion Church and its adjacent cemetery sit within the Fort Indiantown Gap military reservation in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery contains the grave of Joseph Raber, the victim of a premeditated insurance murder carried out in 1878 by a group of six conspirators who became known as the Blue-Eyed Six.
Kane, PA
The Reliquarian House in Kane, Pennsylvania was built as a gift by Elisha Kent Kane — son of Civil War General Thomas L. Kane — for his wife Zella, whom he called 'Silverside.' The town of Kane was founded in 1863 by General Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Pennsylvania Bucktail Regiment. The mansion remained in the Kane family for generations, and its walk-in safe preserves the original deeds, maps, photographs, and correspondence from the town's founding.
King of Prussia, PA
Valley Forge was the winter encampment of George Washington's Continental Army from December 19, 1777 to June 19, 1778. Roughly 12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children built 1,500 to 2,000 log huts here while typhus, dysentery, and exposure killed an estimated 2,000 troops over six months. The site is administered by the National Park Service as Valley Forge National Historical Park.
Kutztown, PA
The Kutztown Area Historical Society occupies the 1892 Public School Building in Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The two-story brick and stone structure, designed in the Late Victorian style with a three-story bell tower, was the first school in Pennsylvania to feature central heating. The Kutztown Area School District transferred the building to the Historical Society in 1979; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 1980.
La Plume, PA
Keystone College in La Plume, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1868 as Keystone Academy. Re-chartered as Scranton-Keystone Junior College in 1934 and then Keystone College in 1995, it operates as a small liberal arts college on a wooded campus in northeastern Pennsylvania. Ward Hall houses the photo lab and offices, and its basement has been the focus of multiple paranormal reports.
Latrobe, PA
Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer, a Benedictine monk from Bavaria, and is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States. The complex grew to include Saint Vincent College, a seminary, and the Saint Vincent Basilica. Wimmer served as the community's first archabbot until his death in 1887.
Lebanon, PA
The building at 1800 Cumberland Street in Lebanon, Pennsylvania was constructed by ironmaster Robert Coleman for his daughter Anne in the early 1800s. Anne Coleman died on December 9, 1819, of a laudanum overdose — whether deliberate or accidental remains unresolved — following the collapse of her engagement to James Buchanan, who later became the 15th President of the United States.
Lehighton, PA
Lehighton Cemetery adjoins the Gnaden Huetten Cemetery, the burial ground of 11 Moravian missionaries killed in the French and Indian War attack of November 24, 1755. The Gnadenhütten settlement — the first in present-day Carbon County — was founded in 1746 by Moravian missionaries. The massacre victims are memorialized by an 1788 stone listing their names and an 1906 obelisk.
Linesville, PA
The Knickerbocker Hotel was built by Milo and Clara Arnold and opened on January 12, 1882 in Linesville, Pennsylvania. The structure functioned as a combined hotel, restaurant, entertainment lounge, and family residence. Clara Arnold died of tuberculosis in 1885 at age 37, and the building remains in use today as a paranormal investigation site.
Lock Haven, PA
The Sloan Fine Arts Building at Lock Haven University is named for John Sloan (1871-1951), the Ashcan School painter who was born in Lock Haven. The building houses the Countdown Theater and other performance spaces. The university, founded in 1870 as Central State Normal School, is set along the Susquehanna River in Clinton County.
Manor, PA
Norwin Elks Lodge No. 2313 was instituted on December 13, 1964 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on a 22-acre property previously associated with the Fletcher family farm operation. The lodge has grown to over 1,200 members and operates a seasonal Terror Barn haunted attraction in a converted barn on the property.
Mansfield, PA
North Hall at what is now Commonwealth University-Mansfield was constructed in the 1870s and expanded around 1908 with a six-story interior atrium known as the Well. The Well was sealed for fire safety in 1930, and the building closed in the 1970s before reopening as the North Hall Library in 1996. Mansfield University merged into Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania in 2022 and the Mansfield campus remains active.
Marietta, PA
Hans Graf Cemetery is a small family burying ground on Old River Road between Marietta and Rowenna in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The plot holds descendants of Hans Graf, a Swiss Mennonite immigrant whose family was among the earliest Pennsylvania-German settlers in Lancaster County in the early eighteenth century. The cemetery is best known regionally for the cluster of folklore that has accumulated around it.
Mars, PA
The Mars Railroad Station was built in 1897 by the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad and is the only surviving station from that line. It closed in the early 1980s, was relocated 150 yards south in August 1999, and reopened as a museum operated by the Mars Area History and Landmarks Society. During the 2000 relocation, workers discovered a mummified cat sealed inside the original foundation.
McCandless, PA
McCandless Town Hall at 9955 Grubbs Road sits on land that was once active farmland in what is now Allegheny County. The township itself dates to 1851 as Taylor Township, renamed McCandless Township in 1857 after District Judge Wilson McCandless. The current building was constructed in 1960.
Media, PA
The Heilbron House sits at the corner of Painters Crossing and Rose Tree Road in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The Edwards family built a stone residence called Chroledale in 1837 atop the foundations of an earlier Murchison-family house lost to fire. The Heilbron family lived there as recently as 1980; a second fire in 1987 was followed by reconstruction in 1988.
Milford, PA
The Tom Quick Inn at 411 Broad Street in Milford, Pennsylvania operates inside two adjoining 1880s hotels — the Terwilliger House (1880) and the Centre Square House (1882) — combined into a single inn in the 1940s. Its namesake is the 18th-century frontiersman Tom Quick, a controversial figure whose monument and legacy remain subjects of regional debate.
Millville, PA
Immanuel Lutheran Church — locally called Katy's Church — was built in 1869 on Katys Church Road in Madison Township, Columbia County, near Millville and the state game lands. Its adjoining Van Dine cemetery holds the grave of Catherine 'Katy' Vandine, whose name the church carries.
Montrose, PA
The Inn at Montrose stands at 458 S. Main Street in Montrose, Pennsylvania. The site previously held two earlier inns, both of which burned — the first in the mid-1920s, and a second nearly-completed replacement immediately after. The current building was completed around 1926 and now offers 29 hotel rooms and additional furnished suites.
Morgantown, PA
The Old Village Inn occupies an early-1800s structure at 3198 Main Street in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, a Berks County village along the original road network connecting Reading and Lancaster. The inn has operated continuously as a tavern and restaurant and has been held by the same family for over seventy years. Sources differ on the exact construction date, with references ranging from 1770 to 1790.
Mount Pocono, PA
The Mount Airy Lodge grew from a small Pocono resort opened by the Martens family in 1936 into an iconic 890-room honeymoon destination in Mount Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Majority owner Emil Wagner, deeply in debt, died by suicide in November 1999; the resort closed in October 2001 and was demolished by the DeNaples family, who built the Mount Airy Casino Resort on the site.
Natrona Heights, PA
Brackenridge Heights Country Club was founded in 1914 as a private nine-hole golf course in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, with a Tom Bendelow-designed layout. The club closed as a private country club in 2017 and now operates as a public course and event venue.
New Bloomfield, PA
Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1836 as Bloomfield Academy by Robert Finley and moved to its hilltop site in 1840, where its first building still stands as a reception hall and museum known as The Maples. In 1914 the school was purchased by Theodore K. Long, who renamed it Carson Long Institute as a memorial to his son, William Carson Long, who died young in a logging accident. For decades it was the oldest continuously operating military boarding school in the United States before declining enrollment forced its permanent closure in June 2018.
New Milford, PA
Old Mill Village Museum was founded in 1960 in response to the Borough of New Milford's centennial celebration to preserve rural life in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains region. The open-air museum, located one mile south of New Milford on Route 848, includes a restored carriage house, one-room schoolhouse, general store, and blacksmith shop and operates seasonally with educational programming.
New Oxford, PA
Chestnut Hall is a Victorian residence in New Oxford, Pennsylvania, designed by architect J.A. Dempwolf in fine 1880s Victorian style. The current owners operated Chestnut Hall Bed and Breakfast at the property from 2003 to 2012, during which time it won multiple regional bed-and-breakfast awards. The property is now a private residence.
Nockamixon, PA
Haycock Mountain is the highest summit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, located in Nockamixon Township near Nockamixon State Park. The mountain is part of Pennsylvania State Game Lands No. 157 and is informally known as Ghost Mountain. The Top Rock Trail leads through a substantial granite boulder field to a summit-area table rock formation. Indigenous Lenape use of the area is well-documented.
North Huntingdon Township, PA
Old Brush Creek Cemetery in North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, is one of the oldest burial grounds in western Pennsylvania, associated with a Presbyterian congregation dating to the 1700s. Revolutionary War soldiers are among those interred here. The adjacent log school-church was burned by Native Americans in 1782, according to local historical accounts.
Oakdale, PA
Saint Patrick's Cemetery in Oakdale, Pennsylvania was acquired in October 1915 and contains 3.57 acres of burial grounds directly behind St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. The cemetery sits on a hill along Noblestown Road, which follows Robinson Run westward — a route that retraces the former Mingo Trail, a path used by Indigenous raiding parties in the pre-settlement period.
Orrtanna, PA
The Cashtown Inn was built in 1797 at what was then a turnpike tollbooth community 8 miles west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In late June and early July 1863, Confederate General A.P. Hill used the inn as his headquarters in the days immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg; General Robert E. Lee also visited the building during the campaign. The inn's basement served as a field hospital during and after the battle.
Phoenixville, PA
The Seven Stars Inn near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, traces its roots to the colonial era, when the Gerhard Brumbach Tavern opened in 1736; the inn at its present location is generally dated to 1754. For nearly three centuries the building has served travelers along the old Chester County roads, and it now operates as a well-known fine-dining steakhouse at 263 Hoffecker Road in East Vincent Township, in the Phoenixville area.
Pitcairn, PA
The Trails sit behind the former Pitcairn Borough baseball fields, adjacent to the historic Pitcairn rail yards opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1892. The Pitcairn yard, named for Pittsburgh-division superintendent Robert Pitcairn, was at its peak one of the largest rail yards in the country, handling more than 200 trains daily during World War II and employing roughly 7,000 valley residents.
Reading, PA
Pendora Park is a 14-acre city park in East Reading, Pennsylvania, originally developed as a commercial amusement park that opened in 1907 and closed after a 1911 fire. The land was acquired by the City of Reading in 1918 and converted to a city playground. The 1927 Lindbergh Viaduct passes above the park.
Saint Peters, PA
The Inn at Saint Peter's Village was built in 1881 in the small French Creek mill village of Saint Peters, Pennsylvania. Restored in the 21st century, it offers six rooms and a suite, with a restaurant, bar, and surrounding shops including an olive-oil store and a winery in the village.
Saltsburg, PA
The town of Livermore, Pennsylvania was established in 1827 by John Livermore on the Conemaugh River in Derry Township, Westmoreland County. A catastrophic flood in March 1936 submerged it under 18 feet of water. Flood control legislation authorized construction of the Conemaugh Dam, and in 1952 the town's remaining structures were demolished and the site was intentionally flooded. The cemetery was relocated above the waterline as required by law.
Sandy Lake, PA
The 'furnaces' near Sandy Lake in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, correspond to historic iron-making works in the area, including Reeds Furnace and operations of the Mercer Iron and Coal Company. Nineteenth-century maps document a brook linking the company's works to Sandy Lake, and the careless waste disposal of the long-defunct ironworks once polluted the lake before the watercourse was rerouted. Today only ruins and place-names such as Reeds Furnace remain.
Scenery Hill, PA
The Century Inn was built in 1794 in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania, as a stagecoach stop on the road that would become the National Road. It is the oldest continuously operating inn on that route, and it hosted Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, and the Marquis de Lafayette during their journeys west.
Smithton, PA
On December 19, 1907, an explosion at the Darr Mine near Van Meter in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, killed 239 men and boys, making it the deadliest coal-mining disaster in Pennsylvania history. Many of the dead were immigrants from central and southern Europe. An inquiry blamed the blast on open lamps carried into a section that had been cordoned off the previous day. Seventy-one victims, 49 of them unidentified, lie in a common grave at Olive Branch Cemetery.
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.
Spring City, PA
Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania opened on November 23, 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic. Over eight decades, more than 10,500 individuals lived on the 1,400-acre campus. A 1974 class-action lawsuit — Halderman v. Pennhurst — established landmark disability rights law after federal courts found conditions violated residents' constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The institution closed December 9, 1987.
Spring Mills, PA
Egg Hill Church is a one-story banked pine church built in 1860 on an isolated hilltop on Short Mountain in Potter Township, Centre County, near Spring Mills and Centre Hall. The congregation was organized by the Evangelical Association in 1838 on land donated by John Dauberman Sr. Regular services ended around 1927. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
St. Davids, PA
The Radnor Hotel sits at 591 E Lancaster Avenue in St. Davids, in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on Philadelphia's Main Line. Built in 1960 and operated for years as the St. David's Inn, it is today a 167-room full-service hotel known for its event space and on-site dining. The Radnor Historical Society holds archival materials documenting its earlier life as the St. David's Inn.
State College, PA
Schwab Auditorium was built in 1902-1903 at Penn State's University Park campus through a $150,000 donation by trustee Charles M. Schwab, then president of Bethlehem Steel. The auditorium stands directly behind Old Main and beside the grave of George W. Atherton, who served as Penn State's seventh president from 1882 until his death in 1906.
Stewartstown, PA
Rehmeyer's Hollow in southern York County, Pennsylvania, was the site of the 1928 murder of Nelson Rehmeyer, a Pennsylvania Dutch powwow practitioner. Three men beat Rehmeyer to death in his home in an attempt to break what they believed was his curse on them. The case became a national news story and the basis for ongoing folklore around the hollow.
Telford, PA
The Rising Sun Inn is a 1739 fieldstone tavern on Allentown Road in Franconia Township, Pennsylvania, built by Peter Gerhart along the colonial-era post road between Philadelphia and Bethlehem. The building sheltered the Liberty Bell overnight in 1777 during its evacuation from Philadelphia, served as an Underground Railroad station, and continues to operate as a working restaurant and tavern today.
Trumbauersville, PA
The Trum Tavern at 1 East Broad Street in Trumbauersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania is believed to be the first tavern in the township. In 1752, Elisha Parker applied for and received one of the earliest tavern licenses in the area, establishing what would become a commercial anchor in Trumbauersville for centuries. The building previously served as a courthouse.
Tullytown, PA
On May 30, 1935, Gertrude Louise Spring, a 25-year-old woman dressed in formal pink gown attire, died in an automobile accident near Tullytown, Pennsylvania. The incident involved a vehicle plunging into or near Tullytown Lake (also known as Van Sciver Lake or Penn Warner Lake). Her companion's body was recovered, but Gertrude's remains were never found.
Tyrone, PA
Janesville Pike is a mountain road outside Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania, with a documented record of over thirty fatal automobile accidents. The road climbs steeply into the Allegheny highlands and is known locally for its dangerous curves and limited visibility, factors that have contributed to both its body count and its folklore.
Uniondale, PA
Lewis Lake in Uniondale, Pennsylvania is a natural lake in Susquehanna County in the northeastern Pennsylvania ridge-and-valley region. No independent historical documentation was found to corroborate the specific events described in the local legend associated with the dam site.
Upper Black Eddy, PA
The parcel at 2206 River Road in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, has hosted a tavern since approximately 1812, operating over two centuries under names including Rising Sun, Merchant House, the Narrowsville Hotel, and most recently the Indian Rock Inn. After a devastating 2015 fire, owners James and Tamara Vipond and partner Anthony Capone rebuilt the structure and reopened in April 2016 as The Narrows.
Warminster, PA
The building at 544 York Road in Warminster, Pennsylvania was petitioned in 1730 to operate as a house of entertainment for travelers and their horses — making the original stone section one of the oldest structures in Warminster Township. Known for generations as the Warminster Hotel, it reopened in late 2023 under new ownership as Mike's York Road Tavern.
Warrendale, PA
Brush Creek Inn operates as a dive bar and casual restaurant in Warrendale, Pennsylvania at 295 Northgate Drive. The establishment continues active service as a community bar.
Waterford, PA
The Eagle Hotel in Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania was built in 1826 by Thomas King, using locally quarried fieldstone. The 2½-story L-shaped inn served as a stagecoach stop and livery stable during the canal and turnpike era. President Zachary Taylor was among its guests. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Waynesboro, PA
Renfrew Museum and Park in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, occupies a 107-acre Pennsylvania German farmstead developed by tanner Daniel Royer and his descendants, centered on the 1812 Royer House. The land is named for the Renfrew sisters, two young girls killed and scalped along the Antietam Creek in 1764 during frontier violence. The property became a public museum and park in 1975 under the will of its last private owner, Emma Geiser Nicodemus, who left the house and grounds to the Borough of Waynesboro.
Weatherly, PA
The cemetery on Lehigh Gorge Drive in Weatherly, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, is formally known as Weatherly Union Cemetery and is operated by the Weatherly Union Cemetery Association. The grounds occupy the former site of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and Cemetery, which served the area until 1875, and contain over 6,800 documented memorials.
West Mifflin, PA
Kennywood Park opened in 1898 on a bluff above the Monongahela River in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, originally as a trolley park operated by the Monongahela Street Railway. It is one of only two amusement parks in the United States designated a National Historic Landmark and retains an unusually intact collection of early-twentieth-century rides, including the 1901 Old Mill dark ride and the wooden coasters Jack Rabbit (1920) and Racer (1927).
White Haven, PA
The White Haven Sanatorium opened in August 1901 as one of the first tuberculosis sanatoria in the United States, founded by Dr. Lawrence F. Flick on a farm halfway up a Pocono mountainside. From 1901 to 1941 it treated 25,335 patients. After tuberculosis declined as a public-health crisis, the property was sold to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1956 as Pennhurst State School Annex #2. The original sanatorium complex stood vacant by 1976.
Williams Township, PA
Hexenkopf, German for Witch's Head, is a rocky hilltop in Williams Township, Northampton County, rising to approximately 1,030 feet — the highest point in the county. Ancient Native American tribes used it as a healing site, drawing evil spirits into the rock during ritual ceremonies. German immigrants who arrived in the 18th century adopted and transformed this practice into the tradition of Pennsylvania German powwowing, or braucherei, which local healers practiced at the rock from the 1700s through at least the 1950s.
Williamsport, PA
The Wildwood Cemetery Association of Williamsport incorporated on August 17, 1863, establishing a 340-acre rural-style garden cemetery on hills west of the city. The site holds the burials of Williamsport's lumber-boom industrialists and remains an active private cemetery.
Womelsdorf, PA
The Stouch Tavern at 138 West High Street in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania dates to roughly 1785, when Conrad Stouch purchased the property from town innkeeper Jacob Seltzer. The tavern served the Stouch-Calder Stagecoach line between Harrisburg and Reading for nearly a century. George Washington stayed at the tavern on November 13, 1793 while inspecting Union Canal construction, and the building still operates as a fine-dining tavern.