Haunted Landmarks

68 haunted landmarks mapped across 39 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Allison BuildingLandmark · Americus, GARichard E.
• Andersonville National Historic SiteLandmark · Andersonville, GADuring the Civil War this quiet stretch of southwest Georgia was Camp Sumter, the Confederacy's largest and deadliest prison, where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers perished from disease, starvation, and exposure in barely fourteen months.
• Asheville Masonic TempleLandmark · Asheville, NCCompleted in 1915, the Asheville Masonic Temple is a downtown landmark that today doubles as a performance and event venue, and it is a recurring stop on the city's downtown ghost tours.
• Battery Park Hotel (Battery Park Apartments)Landmark · Asheville, NCBuilt in 1924 by Edwin Wiley Grove, this Beaux-Arts high-rise was the scene of one of Asheville's most notorious crimes.
• Bishop's Palace (Gresham's Castle)Landmark · Galveston, TXDesigned by architect Nicholas J.
• Bona Allen Shoe FactoryLandmark · Buford, GABuilt in 1919 by the Bona Allen Company, the brick shoe factory beside the Buford railroad tracks helped earn the town its nickname, "The Leather City," turning out hundreds of thousands of pairs of shoes a year and supplying saddles to Hollywood cowboys.
• Bradley Lock & KeyLandmark · Savannah, GABradley Lock & Key has cut keys since 1883, making it the oldest continuously operating business in Savannah; it has held the ground floor of the 1850s Patrick Duffy Building, a few steps from Wright Square, since 1967.
• Bridge House (Albany Welcome Center)Landmark · Albany, GABuilt in 1857 on the banks of the Flint River and designed by the formerly enslaved master architect Horace King, the Bridge House began as a toll house for Albany's covered bridge before its grand second floor became Tift Hall, a celebrated theater and ballroom for the city's elite.
• Brushy Fork RoadLandmark · Loganville, GABrushy Fork Road is a real rural road on the Gwinnett County side of Loganville, tracing Brushy Fork Creek through what was, for decades, unlit woods and scattered farmland before the subdivisions came.
• Cape May LighthouseLandmark · Cape May, NJStanding 157 feet over Cape May Point since 1859, this is one of the country's oldest continuously operating lighthouses, built by the Army Corps of Engineers and now restored and run as a museum by Cape May MAC.
• Carroll County Courthouse, Western DistrictLandmark · Eureka Springs, ARBuilt in 1908 in the Italianate style by local builder William Octavos Perkins, this is the Eureka Springs seat of dual-county-seat Carroll County, and it serves as the traditional starting point for the town's Haunted Eureka Springs walking tours.
• Castillo de San MarcosLandmark · St. Augustine, FLSpain began raising the Castillo de San Marcos in 1672, carving its walls from coquina, a soft local shellstone that absorbed cannonballs rather than shattering, and the fortress never once fell to assault.
• Central State HospitalLandmark · Milledgeville, GAOpened in 1842 as the State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, the Milledgeville campus swelled across 2,000 acres and more than 200 buildings until, by the late 1950s, it held nearly 12,000 patients and ranked as the largest mental institution in the country.
• Congress HallLandmark · Cape May, NJCongress Hall, the grand seaside hotel first built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes (mocked as "Tommy's Folly") and rebuilt after the great fire of 1878, is one of Cape May's most reported hauntings.
• Crybaby BridgeLandmark · Columbus, GADeep in the wooded northern reaches of Columbus, Whitesville Road narrows from two lanes to gravel before it reaches three weathered wooden bridges, the last of which locals have called Crybaby Bridge for generations.
• Eastern State PenitentiaryLandmark · Philadelphia, PAOpened in 1829 as the world's first true penitentiary, Eastern State pioneered solitary confinement, isolating inmates in vaulted cells under a regime so severe that even Charles Dickens condemned it.
• Flagler College (Hotel Ponce de Leon)Landmark · St. Augustine, FLHenry Flagler opened the Hotel Ponce de Leon on January 10, 1888 as a Gilded Age winter resort, a Spanish Colonial Revival landmark designed by Carrère & Hastings, built of poured concrete and coquina, and among the first American buildings wired for electricity under Thomas Edison's direction; it became the centerpiece of Flagler College in 1968.
• Fort MifflinLandmark · Philadelphia, PAFort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, was nearly destroyed during the 1777 Siege of Fort Mifflin, when its garrison absorbed one of the heaviest bombardments of the Revolutionary War before withdrawing.
• Fort Pulaski National MonumentLandmark · Savannah, GABuilt between 1829 and 1847 on Cockspur Island, Fort Pulaski guarded the river approach to Savannah until April 1862, when Union rifled cannon breached its masonry walls in barely thirty hours and rendered brick forts obsolete overnight.
• Freeman's MillLandmark · Dacula, GABrothers John Griffin and Levi J.
• Gribble House ParanormalLandmark · Savannah, GAIn 1909, the Gribble House was the scene of one of Savannah's most gruesome crimes, a triple axe murder that horrified the city.
• Gwinnett Historic CourthouseLandmark · Lawrenceville, GABuilt in 1885 on the historic Lawrenceville square, the stately brick Gwinnett Historic Courthouse is the third to stand here after its two wooden predecessors burned, and it served as the seat of county business until 1988.
• Haunted Pillar (Cursed Pillar)Landmark · Augusta, GAIn the early 1800s a bustling farmers' market, the Lower Market, stood at Fifth and Broad in downtown Augusta.
• Helen's BridgeLandmark · Asheville, NCThis quarried-stone arch on Beaucatcher Mountain was built in 1909 to carry a carriage road to the Zealandia mansion.
• Historic Lawrenceville JailLandmark · Lawrenceville, GABuilt in 1832 and used to hold prisoners for more than a century, the squat concrete jail still stands in an alley just off Lawrenceville's courthouse square.
• Honest AlleyLandmark · Lawrenceville, GAHonest Alley earned its name in the late 1800s and early 1900s as the spot where mule and horse traders gathered to deal in good faith, shipping livestock back by rail to barns and stables that lined the narrow passage off the downtown square; the original stables burned in a 1939 fire, and stone walls from that era still stand among today's revitalized shops.
• Hopsewee PlantationLandmark · Georgetown, SCBuilt around 1740 on the North Santee River, Hopsewee was one of the South's great rice plantations and the birthplace of Thomas Lynch Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• Igbo LandingLandmark · St. Simons Island, GAIn May 1803, roughly seventy-five captive Igbo people aboard a slave schooner rose up off the Georgia coast, seized the vessel, drowned their captors, and ran it aground in the tidal marsh of Dunbar Creek on St.
• Jerome Grand HotelLandmark · Jerome, AZBuilt in 1926 as the United Verde Hospital, this hilltop landmark treated miners and townspeople until it closed in 1950, reopening as a hotel in 1996.
• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkLandmark · Kennesaw, GAFrom June 18 to July 2, 1864, Union and Confederate forces fought across these ridges in one of the bloodiest engagements of the Atlanta Campaign, leaving thousands of casualties scattered through the fields and ravines below the mountain.
• Lafitte's Blacksmith ShopLandmark · New Orleans, LABuilt in the Spanish colonial era of the 1770s, the briquette-entre-poteaux cottage at the corner of Bourbon and St.
• Land's End LightLandmark · Beaufort, SCAlong a roughly three-mile, oak-tunneled stretch of Lands End Road on St.
• Madison Welcome CenterLandmark · Madison, GABuilt in 1887 to serve as Madison's city hall and firehouse, back when fire engines were still drawn by horse and buggy, the building kept its fire pole standing in the hallway long after the last horses were stabled and the new city hall rose in the 1930s.
• Mary the WandererLandmark · St. Simons Island, GAIn the antebellum era, a young woman named Mary of St.
• Oakley House at Audubon State Historic SiteLandmark · St. Francisville, LABuilt around 1806, the Oakley House is the centerpiece of Audubon State Historic Site, named for naturalist John James Audubon, who arrived in 1821 to teach drawing to teenager Eliza Pirrie and painted 32 of his 'Birds of America' studies during four months here.
• Old Candler HospitalLandmark · Savannah, GASavannah's oldest hospital began as a poorhouse and treated the city's yellow-fever dead, who were carried out through tunnels beneath the building.
• Old City HallLandmark · Brunswick, GARising in monumental Richardsonian Romanesque stone, Brunswick's Old City Hall was designed by Alfred S.
• Old City JailLandmark · Charleston, SCBuilt in 1802 on Magazine Street, the Old City Jail held some of Charleston's most notorious prisoners — pirates, Civil War captives, and runaway slaves — until it closed in 1939.
• Old Exchange and Provost DungeonLandmark · Charleston, SCBuilt between 1767 and 1771 atop the older Half Moon Battery, the Old Exchange served as Charleston's custom house, public market, and jail before the British turned its basement into a military prison during their 1780-1782 occupation.
• Old Fort JacksonLandmark · Savannah, GABegun in 1808 under Thomas Jefferson and finished in 1812, Old Fort Jackson is the oldest standing brick fortification in Georgia, raised on the Savannah River to guard the city's approaches and later abandoned by Confederate troops as Sherman closed in during December 1864.
• Old Medical CollegeLandmark · Augusta, GABuilt in 1835 as a Greek Revival temple of learning, the Old Medical College of Georgia trained physicians until 1913, but its instruction depended on a darker labor: Grandison Harris, an enslaved man bought by the faculty in 1852 and later kept on as a paid employee, was the college's "Resurrection Man," exhuming bodies from Augusta's Cedar Grove Cemetery for dissection.
• Old Salem JailLandmark · Salem, MABuilt of Rockport granite between 1811 and 1813 beside the Howard Street Cemetery, the Salem Jail held the county's prisoners for nearly two centuries under famously harsh conditions, with no running water or electricity for much of its life, until a judge ordered it closed in 1991 as the oldest operating jail in the country.
• Old State Capitol BuildingLandmark · Milledgeville, GARaised on the highest point of Statehouse Square in 1807, the Old State Capitol was the seat of Georgia's government for sixty years and one of the oldest Gothic Revival public buildings in the country.
• Old Ursuline ConventLandmark · New Orleans, LACompleted around 1752 and now widely regarded as the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi Valley, the Old Ursuline Convent was raised by French colonial engineers to house the Ursuline nuns who taught and sheltered the young women of the colony.
• Pennsylvania Hall (Gettysburg College)Landmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1837 as the first building of what was then Pennsylvania College, the Greek Revival "Old Dorm" was the largest structure in town when the battle reached its doorstep in July 1863.
• Pirate's AlleyLandmark · New Orleans, LAA narrow 600-foot cobblestone passage beside St.
• Price Memorial HallLandmark · Dahlonega, GAPrice Memorial Hall stands on the foundation of the 1838 Dahlonega Branch U.S.
• Proctor's LedgeLandmark · Salem, MAFor more than three centuries the exact spot where Salem hanged its accused witches was lost to legend, presumed to be the summit of Gallows Hill.
• Public GaolLandmark · Williamsburg, VAWilliamsburg's colonial jail, with cells ready by 1704, held debtors, runaways, the mentally ill, accused murderers awaiting the gallows, and most famously several of Blackbeard's pirate crew, who were jailed here ahead of their 1719 trial at the nearby Capitol.
• Quequechan ClubLandmark · Fall River, MAHoused in an Italianate mansion built in 1861 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the Quequechan Club was founded in the late 19th century as a private gentlemen's social club for Fall River's mill-era elite, later serving as a restaurant and banquet hall.
• River StreetLandmark · Savannah, GAPaved with the stone ballast of old sailing ships, River Street was Savannah's rough working waterfront, lined with warehouses, taverns, and the press gangs that haunted them.
• Sachs Covered BridgeLandmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1852, this 100-foot Town-lattice covered bridge spans Marsh Creek on the outskirts of the Gettysburg battlefield, and in July 1863 it carried Union corps toward the fighting and, days later, much of Lee's defeated army back south in retreat.
• Schieffelin HallLandmark · Tombstone, AZBuilt in 1881 by Albert Schieffelin, brother of town founder Ed Schieffelin, and William Harwood, Schieffelin Hall opened June 8, 1881, as a first-class opera house, theater, and civic meeting place seating roughly 575, and it remains the largest standing adobe structure in the American Southwest.
• Sibley MillLandmark · Augusta, GARising in 1880 on the ruins of the Confederate Powder Works, Sibley Mill spun cotton along the Augusta Canal for more than a century, its weaving rooms thundering with looms until the mill finally fell silent in 2006.
• Sir Christopher Wren BuildingLandmark · Williamsburg, VAThe Wren Building at the College of William & Mary, begun in 1695, is the oldest college building still standing in the United States.
• Skin AlleyLandmark · Norcross, GASkin Alley is a narrow paved lane off South Peachtree Street in historic downtown Norcross, opened originally as a back passage for delivery trucks; locals trace its odd name to the dice games once rolled there, where players "skinned" the backs of their hands.
• St. Augustine LighthouseLandmark · St. Augustine, FLCompleted in 1874 on Anastasia Island, the St.
• St. Simons Island LighthouseLandmark · St. Simons Island, GARebuilt in 1872 after Confederate troops dynamited the original tabby tower, the 104-foot St.
• Sugar Hill DistilleryLandmark · Sugar Hill, GAThe building at 1166 Church Street began as a fellowship hall for Sugar Hill Baptist Church before becoming the City of Sugar Hill's community center, hosting thousands of weddings, receptions, and birthday parties over the decades until Keri and J.D.
• The AlamoLandmark · San Antonio, TXFounded in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo became the site of the 1836 siege where the Texan defenders died fighting Santa Anna's army.
• The Castle (Joseph Johnson House)Landmark · Beaufort, SCBuilt in the 1850s by Dr.
• The Classic Center (Fire Hall No. 1)Landmark · Athens, GABuilt in 1912 as Athens' main fire station and central meeting hall, Fire Hall No.
• The Old JailLandmark · St. Augustine, FLCommissioned in 1891 by industrialist Henry Flagler, who wanted the county jail moved away from his Ponce de Leon Hotel, the Old Jail was built by the Pauly Jail Building Company, the same firm later tied to Alcatraz, and dressed in Romanesque Revival lines so it would pass for a Victorian home.
• The Pink HouseLandmark · Charleston, SCBuilt around 1712 from pinkish Bermuda coral stone, this narrow three-story house on cobblestoned Chalmers Street is among the oldest structures in Charleston and once served as a tavern, likely with a brothel above, for the sailors and pirates passing through the colonial port.
• Thomson DepotLandmark · Thomson, GABuilt around 1860, the Thomson Depot began as a granite freight room on the Georgia Railroad, later expanded with a brick passenger lobby, and stood at the heart of the town's commercial district for over a century before being restored to house the local chamber of commerce.
• Tuckahoe PlantationLandmark · Richmond, VABegun by William Randolph III in 1733 and completed around 1740, Tuckahoe is a National Historic Landmark on the James River just west of Richmond and the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson.
• Tybee Island LighthouseLandmark · Savannah, GAStanding since the 1700s and rebuilt more than once, the Tybee Island Light has guided ships into the Savannah River for centuries.
• Wormsloe Historic SiteLandmark · Savannah, GAWormsloe began as the fortified estate of colonist Noble Jones, one of Savannah's first settlers, and its mile-and-a-half avenue of live oaks is among the most photographed in Georgia.