Haunted Landmarks

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

• Allison BuildingLandmark · Americus, GARichard E. Allison raised this three-story commercial block on West Lamar Street in 1907, filling its high-ceilinged floors with a furniture store and a first-floor pharmacy during the boom years of downtown Americus.
• 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 died of disease, starvation, and exposure in barely fourteen months, the dead laid in trench graves that now form the white rows of Andersonville National Cemetery.
• 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 became the scene of one of Asheville's most notorious crimes.
• Bishop's Palace (Gresham's Castle)Landmark · Galveston, TXDesigned by architect Nicholas J. Clayton and completed in 1893 for railroad magnate and politician Walter Gresham and his wife Josephine, this Chateauesque mansion is a National Historic Landmark known as "Gresham's Castle." The Greshams raised their children here, and Walter died in the home in 1920.
• Bona Allen Shoe FactoryLandmark · Buford, GABuilt in 1919 by the Bona Allen Company, the brick shoe factory beside the Buford railroad tracks gave the town its nickname, "The Leather City," turning out hundreds of thousands of pairs a year and saddles for Hollywood cowboys.
• Bradley Lock & KeyLandmark · Savannah, GABradley Lock & Key has cut keys since 1883, making it Savannah's oldest continuously operating business, and since 1967 it has held the ground floor of the 1850s Patrick Duffy Building near Wright Square.
• Bridge House (Albany Welcome Center)Landmark · Albany, GABuilt in 1857 on the banks of the Flint River by 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 rural road on the Gwinnett County side of Loganville, tracing Brushy Fork Creek through what was for decades unlit woods and 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 sprawled across 2,000 acres and more than 200 buildings, and by the late 1950s held nearly 12,000 patients 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, GAWhitesville Road narrows from two lanes to gravel in the wooded northern reaches of Columbus before reaching 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, poured from concrete and coquina and among the first American buildings wired for electricity under Thomas Edison; it became the heart of Flagler College in 1968.
• Fort MifflinLandmark · Philadelphia, PAFort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, absorbed one of the heaviest bombardments of the Revolutionary War during the 1777 Siege of Fort Mifflin, its garrison holding 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. Loveless built this gristmill on the Alcovy River between 1868 and 1879, and under the later Freeman family it ground corn meal and wheat flour for Gwinnett farmers until 1986, one of the county's last working mills and now on the National Register of Historic Places.
• 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 and drew national attention, reported in newspapers as far away as New York and Los Angeles.
• Gwinnett Historic CourthouseLandmark · Lawrenceville, GABuilt in 1885 on the Lawrenceville square, the stately brick Gwinnett Historic Courthouse is the third to stand here after 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 for over a century, this squat concrete jail still stands off Lawrenceville's courthouse square.
• Honest AlleyLandmark · Lawrenceville, GAHonest Alley earned its name in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when mule and horse traders gathered to deal in good faith, shipping livestock by rail to the stables lining this narrow passage off the downtown square; the original stables burned in a 1939 fire, though 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. Simons Island.
• 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 1770s Spanish colonial era, this briquette-entre-poteaux cottage at the corner of Bourbon and St. Philip is among the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans, a National Historic Landmark now run as a candlelit bar.
• Land's End LightLandmark · Beaufort, SCAlong a roughly three-mile, oak-tunneled stretch of Lands End Road on St. Helena Island, just past the Chapel of Ease, generations of locals have reported a mysterious light that appears at night.
• Madison Welcome CenterLandmark · Madison, GABuilt in 1887 as Madison's city hall and firehouse, back when fire engines were drawn by horse and buggy, the building kept its fire pole in the hallway long after 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. Simons Island was betrothed to her beloved, who set out by rowboat across the storm-churned Frederica River and never returned, his small craft splintered against the tide.
• 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, GAStanding on Drayton Street across from Forsyth Park, the Old Candler Hospital is counted as the oldest hospital in Georgia, tracing its origins to the early nineteenth century when it opened as a poorhouse and almshouse for the city's destitute.
• Old City HallLandmark · Brunswick, GABuilt in monumental Richardsonian Romanesque stone to a design by Alfred S. Eichberg, Brunswick's Old City Hall opened in 1890 as the coastal city's seat of government and courts.
• 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, though its instruction leaned on a darker labor.
• 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 regarded as the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi Valley, the Old Ursuline Convent housed the nuns who taught New Orleans' young women.
• Pennsylvania Hall (Gettysburg College)Landmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1837 as the first building of Pennsylvania College, the Greek Revival "Old Dorm" was the largest structure in town when the battle reached it in July 1863.
• Pirate's AlleyLandmark · New Orleans, LAPirate's Alley is a narrow 600-foot cobblestone passage beside St. Louis Cathedral, laid out as Orleans Alley South in the late 1700s and only renamed in 1964, its title likely borrowed from a 1920s gift shop rather than any proven dealings of the privateer Jean Lafitte.
• 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, hand-laid from quarries as far as Madeira, France, and the British Isles, River Street ran along the Savannah River where Georgia's colony was founded in 1733.
• Sachs Covered BridgeLandmark · Gettysburg, PASachs Covered Bridge is a 100-foot Town-lattice covered bridge built around 1852, spanning Marsh Creek on the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield.
• 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, GABuilt in 1880 on the ruins of the Confederate Powder Works, Sibley Mill spun cotton along the Augusta Canal for over a century until its looms 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. Augustine Lighthouse rose 165 feet above the inlet, its black-and-white spiral tower built under construction superintendent Hezekiah Pittee.
• St. Simons Island LighthouseLandmark · St. Simons Island, GARebuilt in 1872 after Confederate troops dynamited the original tabby tower, the 104-foot St. Simons Island Lighthouse has guided ships into St. Simons Sound for over a century and a half.
• Sugar Hill DistilleryLandmark · Sugar Hill, GAThe building at 1166 Church Street began as a fellowship hall for Sugar Hill Baptist Church, then served as the city's community center, hosting decades of weddings and birthday parties before 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. Joseph Johnson in an Italian Renaissance style, this riverfront mansion in Beaufort's Point neighborhood is the town's most famous haunt.
• The Classic Center (Fire Hall No. 1)Landmark · Athens, GABuilt in 1912 as Athens' main fire station and meeting hall, Fire Hall No. 1 was nearly demolished in the late 1980s for the city's performing arts center, but public outcry saved the brick structure, now part of The Classic Center.
• 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 firm later tied to Alcatraz, and dressed in Romanesque Revival lines to 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 as a granite freight room on the Georgia Railroad, the Thomson Depot later gained a brick passenger lobby and anchored the town's commercial district for over a century before its restoration as 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, GAFirst established in 1736 under James Oglethorpe at the mouth of the Savannah River, the Tybee Island Light has been rebuilt across four successive towers, the present 144-foot structure dating to 1867 after the Civil War.
• Wormsloe Historic SiteLandmark · Savannah, GAWormsloe began as the fortified estate of Noble Jones, a carpenter and colonist who leased land on the Isle of Hope in 1736, about eleven miles southeast of downtown Savannah.