All Haunted Places

Every haunted place on HauntGo — 310 spots across 56 cities.

• 17Hundred90 InnInn · Savannah, GAOne of the oldest inns in Savannah, the 17Hundred90 keeps its most famous guest in Room 204.
• 1842 InnInn · Macon, GAJudge John Jones Gresham, a Macon attorney, jurist, and two-time mayor, raised the Greek Revival mansion on College Street in 1842 as a forever home for his family, living there until his death in 1900.
• 1859 Ashton VillaHouse · Galveston, TXBuilt in 1859 by James Moreau Brown, Ashton Villa was the first of Galveston's grand Broadway mansions and survived the Civil War, yellow fever epidemics, and the 1900 Storm.
• 1886 Crescent Hotel & SpaInn · Eureka Springs, ARBilled as 'America's Most Haunted Hotel,' the Crescent opened in 1886.
• 1905 Basin Park HotelInn · Eureka Springs, AROpened July 1, 1905, the seven-story Basin Park rises against a limestone bluff downtown, built on the site of the earlier Perry House.
• 432 Abercorn StreetHouse · Savannah, GABuilt in 1868-69 in the Regency style for Benjamin J.
• Academy of MusicTheater · Philadelphia, PAOpened in 1857, the Academy of Music is the oldest opera house in the United States still used for its original purpose and a National Historic Landmark on the Avenue of the Arts.
• Aiken-Rhett HouseHouse · Charleston, SCBuilt around 1820 for Charleston merchant John Robinson and vastly expanded by Governor William Aiken Jr.
• 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.
• Andrew Jackson HotelInn · New Orleans, LAThe site at 919 Royal Street began as a Spanish colonial boarding school for boys, many of them orphaned by yellow fever, before the great fires that swept the French Quarter in 1794 reduced it to ash and, by legend, claimed five young boys trapped inside.
• Andrew Low HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAHome to one of Savannah's wealthiest cotton merchants, and later to Juliette Gordon Low, the Andrew Low House hosted guests from Robert E.
• Anthony's Fine Dining (Pope-Walton House)Restaurant · Atlanta, GAThe Pope-Walton House began rising in Wilkes County around 1797 and survived the Civil War when Sherman's troops looted but spared it, reportedly because Mary Pope Walton and her infant daughter sheltered inside.
• Aqua Terra BistroRestaurant · Buford, GAAqua Terra Bistro occupies an early-20th-century storefront on Buford's historic Main Street, the old leather-and-rail district that gave the town its "Leather City" nickname, and today serves fine-dining steaks and seafood from the renovated space.
• Archibald Smith Plantation HomeHouse · Roswell, GAArchibald Smith, one of Roswell's founding settlers, built this Georgia piedmont farmhouse in 1845 and worked the surrounding 300-acre plantation with enslaved laborers; three generations of his family lived here, and when they fled the Civil War for Valdosta they carried their 1833 parlor piano with them.
• 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.
• Audubon House and GardensMuseum · Key West, FLHarbor pilot and master wrecker Captain John H.
• Barrington HallHouse · Roswell, GACompleted in 1842 after years of seasoning its timber, Barrington Hall is a Greek Revival mansion built on the highest point in Roswell for Barrington King, who with his father Roswell King founded the town.
• Basilica of St. LawrenceChurch · Asheville, NCCompleted in 1909, this Catholic basilica is famous for its self-supporting tile dome, designed by Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino, who supplied the materials and oversaw construction using his patented tile-and-mortar system.
• Basin Spring ParkPark · Eureka Springs, ARThe small stone-walled park at the heart of downtown surrounds Basin Spring, the mineral spring that founded Eureka Springs in 1879.
• Battery Carriage House InnInn · Charleston, SCTucked behind the 1843 Stevens-Lathers mansion on Charleston's Battery, this brick carriage house opened as an inn in 1970 under the Drayton-Hastie family and earned a reputation as the city's most haunted lodging.
• 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.
• Betsy Ross HouseMuseum · Philadelphia, PAThis small Old City house, built around 1740, is celebrated as the home of upholsterer Betsy Ross, traditionally credited with sewing the first American flag.
• Big Nose Kate's SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZNow named for Doc Holliday's companion Mary Big Nose Kate Haroney, this Allen Street saloon began as the Grand Hotel, which opened in September 1880 and lodged Tombstone's elite during the silver boom.
• Biltmore EstateMuseum · Asheville, NCGeorge Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed in 1895 and now a house museum, has accumulated a body of ghost lore reported on regional tours and in local guides.
• Bird Cage TheatreTheater · Tombstone, AZOpened December 26, 1881, the Bird Cage was a combined theatre, saloon, gambling hall, and brothel that ran nearly nonstop for roughly eight years, earning a reputation as one of the wickedest spots between New Orleans and San Francisco.
• Bishop White HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PABuilt in 1787, this Old City rowhouse was home to William White, first Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania and chaplain to the Continental Congress, who lived here until his death in 1836 at age 85.
• 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.
• Bonaventure CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GABonaventure is Savannah's most beautiful burial ground, a bluff above the river draped in live oaks and Spanish moss.
• Boothill GraveyardCemetery · Tombstone, AZBoothill served as Tombstone's main burial ground from about 1879 to 1884 and is likely the most famous Wild West cemetery in the world, holding the graves of lawmen, outlaws, gamblers, women, and children, including Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury, killed in the O.K.
• Bourbon Orleans HotelInn · New Orleans, LAIn the heart of the French Quarter, the Bourbon Orleans rose from the Orleans Ballroom and Theatre, a center of Creole society where lavish balls filled the room beneath its chandeliers.
• 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.
• Broadway Cemetery Historic District (Old City Cemetery)Cemetery · Galveston, TXThis six-block district holds seven burial grounds platted from 1839 to 1939, including the Old City Cemetery, Potter's Field, the Old Catholic Cemetery, and a Yellow Fever yard.
• 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.
• Bruton Parish ChurchChurch · Williamsburg, VABruton Parish, an active Episcopal church whose current building was completed in 1715, sits at the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, with a churchyard holding graves dating to the late 17th century.
• Burke MansionHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1887 for businessman Thomas C.
• Calhoun SquareSquare · Savannah, GACalhoun Square is the only one of Savannah's squares still ringed entirely by its original buildings, and, many believe, the only one built over a forgotten burial ground of the enslaved.
• Cannonball HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1853 as a Greek Revival townhouse for Judge Asa Holt, the home earned its name on July 30, 1864, when a Union cannonball fired during General Stoneman's raid skipped off the sidewalk, struck a front column, tore through the parlor, and came to rest in the interior hallway without exploding or killing anyone.
• 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.
• Captain Tony's SaloonRestaurant · Key West, FLBuilt around 1851, this building served as an icehouse and the city morgue, then housed the original Sloppy Joe's Bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented before becoming Captain Tony's Saloon in 1958.
• 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.
• Casablanca Inn on the BayInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1914 as the Matanzas Hotel, this Mediterranean Revival inn sits on the bayfront in St.
• Cashtown InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1797 as a stagecoach stop on the turnpike west of Gettysburg, the Cashtown Inn took its name from an early innkeeper who accepted only cash.
• 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 Congregational ChurchChurch · Fall River, MABuilt in 1875 by Boston architects Hartwell & Swasey and added to the National Register of Historic Places, this Gothic stone church was the home congregation of the Borden family.
• 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.
• Chelsea's Corner Cafe & BarRestaurant · Eureka Springs, ARA downtown fixture for decades, Chelsea's Corner Cafe is one of the town's best-known watering holes, with live music most nights of the week and a quirky layout that lets patrons enter from either Spring Street or Mountain Street.
• Cherokee CottageHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt around 1915 as the Shrady-James Cottage and soon nicknamed Cherokee Cottage, this twenty-room winter home stood in the gilded enclave of the Jekyll Island Club, where Gilded Age railroad and banking families wintered along the Georgia coast.
• Chinese Graveyard (Loma China Cemetery)Cemetery · San Antonio, TXTucked off South Zarzamora Street on the city's far south side near Texas A&M University-San Antonio, this small overgrown family cemetery, also called the Loma China Cemetery and the Guzman Burial Ground, is the subject of one of San Antonio's most enduring ghost legends.
• Chowning's TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAJosiah Chowning opened this alehouse in 1766, and Colonial Williamsburg reconstructed it in 1941 as a working tavern.
• Christ Church Frederica CemeteryCemetery · St. Simons Island, GASurrounding one of America's oldest churches, founded in 1736 near Oglethorpe's Fort Frederica, the cemetery at Christ Church holds graves reaching back to the early 1800s beneath a canopy of live oaks draped in Spanish moss.
• Circular Congregational Church GraveyardCemetery · Charleston, SCFounded around 1681 by Charleston's original English Congregationalists, Scots Presbyterians, and French Huguenots, the Circular Congregational Church surrounds the city's oldest burial ground, with surviving markers dating to 1695 and weathered slates tracing colonial death art from winged skulls to portrait busts.
• Cold Spring Presbyterian Church and CemeteryChurch · Cape May, NJFounded in 1714 with its current red-brick church built in 1823, Cold Spring Presbyterian sits beside one of South Jersey's oldest burial grounds.
• Colonial Park CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GASavannah's oldest surviving cemetery holds more than ten thousand souls, many of them lost to the yellow-fever epidemics that swept the city.
• 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.
• Connor HotelInn · Jerome, AZDavid Connor built this brick hotel and saloon on Main Street, rebuilding in 1898 after fire twice razed the structure as it had much of early Jerome.
• 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.
• Crystal Palace SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZThe Crystal Palace, whose two-story gaming parlor opened July 22, 1882, on the corner of Fifth and Allen, is one of Tombstone's most authentic and continuously operating saloons, its ornate bar witnessing more than 140 years of drinking, gambling, and gunplay tied to the era of the O.K.
• Curry Mansion InnInn · Key West, FLThis grand Victorian mansion was begun under William Curry, a shipwreck salvager said to be Key West's first millionaire, and reworked into its present form by his son Milton around 1905.
• Dahlonega Gold Museum (Old Lumpkin County Courthouse)Museum · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1836 to settle the flood of claim disputes from America's first major gold rush, this brick courthouse — fired from local clay laced with trace gold — is the oldest standing courthouse in Georgia and served Lumpkin County until 1965 before becoming the Dahlonega Gold Museum.
• Daniel Lady FarmHouse · Gettysburg, PADaniel Lady bought this stone farmhouse and 146-acre property in 1840, and in July 1863 it was swept into the Battle of Gettysburg, serving first as a Confederate staging area and headquarters and then as a field hospital during the fighting for Culp's Hill.
• Devil's DenPark · Gettysburg, PADevil's Den is a real maze of massive boulders on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg National Military Park, where on July 2, 1863, roughly 3,100 Confederates under John Bell Hood overwhelmed some 2,400 Union defenders in one of the battle's most savage infantry fights, leaving over 1,800 casualties among the rocks.
• Dobbin House TavernRestaurant · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1776 by the Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a family home and classical school for boys, the stone house is the oldest standing structure in Gettysburg, later sheltering freedom-seekers in a hidden crawl space on the Underground Railroad and serving as a field hospital for wounded soldiers of both armies after the 1863 battle.
• Dock Street TheatreTheater · Charleston, SCOpened in 1736 as the first building in America constructed expressly for theatrical performances, the original Dock Street Theatre burned in the Great Fire of 1740; the Planter's Hotel rose on the site in 1809 and became a celebrated stop for Lowcountry planters during racing season before the WPA rebuilt a working theatre inside its shell in the 1930s.
• Douglass TheatreTheater · Macon, GAIn 1911, Charles Henry Douglass opened the Douglass Theatre on Macon's Broadway, building it into one of the South's premier stages for Black performers, where Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and a young Otis Redding and James Brown all took the spotlight.
• Driftwood BeachPark · Jekyll Island, GAOn the northern shore of Jekyll Island, decades of erosion have hollowed out a maritime forest into a boneyard of sun-bleached oaks and pines, their roots clawing the sand like the skeletons of some vast wreck.
• Earl and Rachel Smith Strand TheatreTheater · Marietta, GAOn Halloween in 1930, fire swept the buildings on the northeast corner of Marietta Square, clearing the ground where a grander house would rise.
• Early Hill PlantationHouse · Greensboro, GABuilt around 1820 on a ridge between Richland and Beaverdam creeks, Early Hill was the Greek Revival plantation house of Joel Early, Jr., brother of Georgia governor Peter Early and, unusually for his class, the first Georgian to free and resettle enslaved people in Liberia.
• East Bay InnInn · Savannah, GAEdward Padelford raised this restrained brick building with its cast-iron façade in 1852, when it stood among the cotton warehouses lining Savannah's bluff above the river.
• 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.
• Edgar Allan Poe MuseumMuseum · Richmond, VAHoused in the Old Stone House, one of the oldest structures in Richmond, the Poe Museum honors the writer who grew up in the city.
• Eliza Thompson HouseInn · Savannah, GACotton merchant Joseph Thompson built this Greek Revival home in 1847 for his wife Eliza and their seven children, making it the first house on Jones Street, long celebrated as one of the most beautiful streets in America.
• Elkhorn Lodge and Guest RanchInn · Estes Park, COTracing to an 1874 cabin and developed by the James family into a hunting-and-fishing lodge, the Elkhorn is one of the oldest continuously operating guest ranches in the Rocky Mountain region and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
• Ellis HotelInn · Atlanta, GAOpened in 1913 and advertised as "absolutely fireproof," the 15-story Winecoff Hotel on Peachtree Street became the site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S.
• Emily Morgan HotelInn · San Antonio, TXBuilt in 1924 as the Gothic-style Medical Arts Building, this tower stood directly across from the Alamo and operated for decades as a medical center, housing doctors' offices and a small hospital before conversion to a hotel in 1984.
• Emlen Physick EstateMuseum · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1879 for Dr.
• Ernest Hemingway Home and MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis French Colonial mansion was built in 1851 by marine architect and salvager Asa Tift and became Ernest Hemingway's home from 1931 to 1939, where he wrote some of his best-known work with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.
• Eureka Springs Cemetery (Silent City)Cemetery · Eureka Springs, ARFounded in 1889 by the local Independent Order of Odd Fellows, this 46.5-acre hillside cemetery, nicknamed the 'Silent City,' became the resting place for many of the health seekers who flooded Victorian Eureka Springs hoping the mineral waters would cure them.
• Ezekiel Harris HouseHouse · Augusta, GATobacco merchant Ezekiel Harris raised this Federal-style house above Augusta in 1797, and for generations it was mistaken for the old Mackay Trading Post, where legend says thirteen captured Patriots were hanged from the staircase during the Revolution's first siege of Augusta.
• Farnsworth House InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt as a log house around 1810 with a brick addition in 1833, the building sat squarely in the line of fire during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, when Confederate sharpshooters climbed into its attic garret and fired toward Union positions on East Cemetery Hill — leaving more than a hundred bullet scars still visible in its south wall today.
• First African Baptist ChurchChurch · Savannah, GAOrganized in 1773 and constituted in 1777, First African Baptist Church is widely regarded as the oldest continuously active Black congregation in North America, its present brick sanctuary completed in 1859 by the hands of free and enslaved African Americans who made the bricks themselves.
• 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.
• Foley House InnInn · Savannah, GAWhen the Foley House was renovated, workers found a human skeleton bricked up inside a wall, the body, legend says, of a man the original owner killed and hid.
• Forsyth ParkPark · Savannah, GASavannah's grand central park, with its famous white fountain, was laid out over former military parade grounds and sits beside the old fever hospital.
• Fort East Martello MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis 1862 Civil War-era brick fort houses Robert the Doll, arguably America's most famous haunted object.
• 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.
• Fox TheatreTheater · Atlanta, GAOpened on Christmas Day 1929 — two months after the stock market crash — the Fox began as a Shriners' temple before movie magnate William Fox leased it as a lavish movie palace, its Moorish minarets and Egyptian motifs making it a National Historic Landmark and the last surviving movie palace in Atlanta.
• Freeman's MillLandmark · Dacula, GABrothers John Griffin and Levi J.
• George Wythe HouseHouse · Williamsburg, VABuilt in the early 1750s for George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and law teacher to Thomas Jefferson, this Georgian house served as George Washington's headquarters before the siege of Yorktown.
• Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama)Museum · Tifton, GAOpened on July 4, 1976 and long known as the Agrirama, this 95-acre living-history village gathers wiregrass-era farmhouses, a turpentine still, a gristmill, and a working sawmill rescued from across South Georgia and rebuilt as a single 1800s settlement.
• Ghost City Inn Bed & BreakfastInn · Jerome, AZBuilt around 1890 as a boarding house for middle mine management during Jerome's copper boom, this Main Street building has served over the decades as a private home for the Garcia family for over 50 years, then a restaurant, a spiritual retreat, a funeral home, and an art gallery before becoming a bed and breakfast in 1994.
• Grace Episcopal Church and CemeteryChurch · St. Francisville, LAGrace Episcopal, organized in 1827 with its present Gothic Revival building completed in 1860, anchors one of the most atmospheric and reputedly haunted graveyards in Louisiana.
• Grand Opera HouseTheater · Macon, GAOpened in 1905 with the largest stage in the Southeast, the Grand Opera House on Mulberry Street still anchors downtown Macon as a 1,030-seat performing arts hall.
• Green-Meldrim HouseHouse · Savannah, GAThis Gothic Revival mansion served as General Sherman's headquarters when he took Savannah in 1864 and famously offered the city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
• Greenwood PlantationHouse · St. Francisville, LAGreenwood is a towering Greek Revival mansion ringed by 28 white columns, originally built in 1830 by William Ruffin Barrow.
• 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.
• Hamilton-Turner InnInn · Savannah, GAThis Second Empire mansion on Lafayette Square was once the grandest home in the city, and the first with electric lights.
• Hampton-Lillibridge HouseHouse · Savannah, GAMoved and restored in the 1960s, the Hampton-Lillibridge House is often called the most haunted house in Savannah.
• 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.
• Hawkinsville Opera HouseTheater · Hawkinsville, GADesigned by Macon theater architect W.R.
• Hawthorne HotelInn · Salem, MAOpened in 1925 and named for Salem's own Nathaniel Hawthorne, this six-story Colonial Revival hotel on Washington Square has long been the city's grand address, said to stand near land once tied to the witch-trial accused Bridget Bishop.
• Hay HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt between 1855 and 1859 by William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne after a European honeymoon, the 24-room Italian Renaissance Revival mansion atop Coleman Hill was so opulent it earned the name "Palace of the South," passing through the Felton and Hay families before becoming a Georgia Trust museum in 1977.
• Helen's BridgeLandmark · Asheville, NCThis quarried-stone arch on Beaucatcher Mountain was built in 1909 to carry a carriage road to the Zealandia mansion.
• Heritage HallHouse · Madison, GABuilt in 1811 and later transformed into a Greek Revival showpiece by Dr.
• Hill-Physick HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PAThis freestanding 1786 Federal mansion in Society Hill was the home of Dr.
• 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.
• Historic Park TheatreTheater · Estes Park, COOpened in 1913, the Park Theatre is the oldest original single-screen movie house in continuous operation in the United States and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
• Historic Savannah TheatreTheater · Savannah, GAOpen since 1818, the Historic Savannah Theatre is one of the oldest continually operating theaters in America, rebuilt again and again after fires and storms.
• Hofwyl-Broadfield PlantationHouse · Brunswick, GAIn the early 1800s William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from the salt marshes along the Altamaha River, and for five generations the Dent family lived in the antebellum house until Ophelia Dent, the last heir, willed it to Georgia in 1973.
• Holly TheaterTheater · Dahlonega, GABuilt as a movie house and opened in July 1948 with a Georgia marble facade and seating for 500, the Holly Theater anchored downtown Dahlonega until television thinned its crowds in the 1960s; it was restored in the 1990s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, today operating as a nonprofit live-theater venue.
• Hollywood CemeteryCemetery · Richmond, VAOpened in 1847 on a hilly tract above the James River, Hollywood holds the most layered ghost lore in Richmond.
• 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.
• Hotel Galvez (Grand Galvez)Inn · Galveston, TXOpened in 1911 and nicknamed the "Queen of the Gulf," the Galvez is best known for the ghost of Room 501, called Audra or the "Lovelorn Bride." Local lore says a young woman in the 1950s rented the room while awaiting her fiance, a mariner sailing into the Port of Galveston.
• Hotel MacomberInn · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1916, this grand shingle-style hotel on Beach Avenue is best known for the "Trunk Lady" of Room 10.
• Hotel MonteleoneInn · New Orleans, LAFounded in 1886 when Sicilian immigrant Antonio Monteleone bought a small hotel at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets, the Hotel Monteleone grew into one of the French Quarter's grand landmarks, family-owned through five generations and beloved by writers from Faulkner to Capote.
• Howard Street CemeteryCemetery · Salem, MAEstablished in 1801 as the Branch Street Cemetery and renamed in 1828 for sailmaker John Howard, this 2.5-acre burying ground holds roughly 1,100 graves of ship captains, Revolutionary War soldiers, and early members of Salem's African American community.
• Huguenot CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLEstablished in 1821 just as a yellow fever epidemic swept St.
• 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.
• Isaiah Davenport HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAOne of Savannah's very first preservation projects, the Davenport House narrowly escaped the wrecking ball before the city saved it in 1955.
• Jekyll Island Club ResortInn · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1887 as the winter retreat of America's wealthiest families, the Jekyll Island Club drew Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers, and Vanderbilts to its riverfront verandas, a Gilded Age enclave so exclusive that members were said to control a sixth of the world's wealth.
• Jennie Wade HouseHouse · Gettysburg, PAOn July 3, 1863, twenty-year-old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was kneading bread in her sister's brick home on Baltimore Street when a stray Minié ball passed through two doors and struck her dead, making her the only civilian killed directly by the fighting at Gettysburg.
• Jerome (Hogback) CemeteryCemetery · Jerome, AZEstablished in the late 1800s soon after Jerome's founding, this windswept burial ground sits on Hogback Ridge at the edge of town, reached via North Avenue off Highway 89A.
• 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.
• Jerome State Historic Park (Douglas Mansion)Museum · Jerome, AZMining magnate James S.
• John Mark Verdier HouseMuseum · Beaufort, SCThis Federal-style mansion was built around 1804 by John Mark Verdier, a wealthy French Huguenot merchant and planter.
• John Marshall HouseHouse · Richmond, VAChief Justice John Marshall built this brick Federal home in Richmond's Court End neighborhood in 1790 and lived there 45 years until his death in 1835.
• Joshua Ward HouseHouse · Salem, MAMerchant Joshua Ward raised this brick Federal mansion around 1784 on the demolished foundation of the 1692 home of George Corwin, the high sheriff who oversaw the imprisonments, property seizures, and executions of the Salem witch trials.
• Juliette Gordon Low BirthplaceMuseum · Savannah, GAThe founder of the Girl Scouts was born in this Regency mansion in 1860, and the house stayed in her family for generations.
• Kehoe HouseInn · Savannah, GAThis grand Queen Anne mansion was home to the large Kehoe family, and legend holds that two of their children died within its walls.
• 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.
• Key West CemeteryCemetery · Key West, FLFounded in 1847 on high ground after an 1846 hurricane washed bodies out of the previous seaside burial ground, this 19-acre cemetery holds an estimated 100,000 interments and is famous for its wry epitaphs, including one reading 'I told you I was sick.' Locals say souls disturbed by the hurricane never found peace, and visitors report floating lights, shadowy figures moving between tombstones, and cold gusts on still nights.
• King's Arms TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAOpened in 1772 by tavern keeper Jane Vobe, the King's Arms was one of Williamsburg's most genteel colonial taverns and still operates today as a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining room.
• Knoll-Willows Open SpacePark · Estes Park, COThis downtown open space, with a trailhead behind Town Hall and across from the Stanley Hotel, is the modern setting for Estes Park's most famous fireside legend: the Blue Mist.
• 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.
• LaLaurie MansionHouse · New Orleans, LAIn the 1830s the wealthy socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie hosted lavish parties at her grand Royal Street mansion, even as rumors spread about her cruelty toward the people she enslaved.
• Land's End LightLandmark · Beaufort, SCAlong a roughly three-mile, oak-tunneled stretch of Lands End Road on St.
• Lapham-Patterson HouseHouse · Thomasville, GABuilt in 1884-85 as a winter retreat for Chicago shoe merchant Charles Lapham, this elaborate Queen Anne mansion bristles with more than 50 exits and 24 exterior doors, the product of an owner so scarred by surviving the Great Chicago Fire that he refused to ever feel trapped indoors again.
• Laurel Grove CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GALaid out on a former Springfield Plantation rice field and opened for burials in 1853, Laurel Grove was Savannah's grand Victorian answer to the overflowing Colonial Park Cemetery, its lush plantings and carved stones echoing Green-Wood and Père Lachaise.
• Laurel Hill CemeteryCemetery · Philadelphia, PAFounded in 1836 above the Schuylkill River, Laurel Hill is a National Historic Landmark and one of America's first architecturally designed 'rural' cemeteries, holding tens of thousands of burials beneath thousands of monuments.
• Lawrenceville Historic CemeteryCemetery · Lawrenceville, GAEstablished in Lawrenceville's earliest days, the historic cemetery holds Gwinnett County's founders, including William Maltbie and Elisha Winn, the town's first mayor John Clay Smith, Revolutionary War veteran Nathan Spence, and eight Confederate soldiers among rows of unmarked graves.
• Linden Row InnInn · Richmond, VALinden Row Inn occupies seven Greek Revival row houses built in the mid-1800s on a downtown block layered with Edgar Allan Poe history.
• Little GardensRestaurant · Lawrenceville, GASet on a seven-acre hilltop estate along Lawrenceville Highway in Gwinnett County, the grand white house and ballroom known for years as Little Gardens long served as a private residence before becoming a popular restaurant, lounge, and event venue.
• Lizzie Borden HouseInn · Fall River, MAOn August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet in this Greek Revival home; Andrew's daughter Lizzie was tried and acquitted, leaving the case unsolved.
• Lucas TheatreTheater · Savannah, GAOpened on December 26, 1921 by Atlanta theater magnate Arthur Lucas, the Lucas Theatre was a 1,200-seat Spanish Baroque movie palace and the first air-conditioned building in Savannah, drawing crowds for more than four decades before it went dark after a final screening in 1976.
• Lustrat HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in 1847 as a faculty residence on the University of Georgia's North Campus, the Lustrat House later passed through service as a house museum, the university president's office, and today the Office of Legal Affairs.
• Madison SquareSquare · Savannah, GANamed for President James Madison, this square honors the bloody Siege of Savannah and the soldiers who fell trying to retake the city in 1779.
• 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.
• Magnolia CemeteryCemetery · Augusta, GAOfficially founded in 1818 on the grounds of a former plantation, Magnolia Cemetery is Augusta's oldest public burial ground, sixty acres holding seven Confederate generals, three Southern poets, and reputedly Georgia's oldest tree.
• Majestic TheatreTheater · San Antonio, TXOpened in 1929 and designed by atmospheric-theater architect John Eberson with a ceiling that mimics a Mediterranean night sky, the Majestic was once among the largest theaters in the country, seating over 2,200.
• MaplecroftHouse · Fall River, MAAfter her 1893 acquittal, Lizzie Borden left the murder house and bought this Queen Anne mansion in Fall River's affluent Highlands district, christening it 'Maplecroft' and carving the name into the front step.
• Margaret Mitchell HouseMuseum · Atlanta, GAThe brick Tudor on Crescent Avenue was the Crescent Apartments when Margaret Mitchell and her husband took a cramped ground-floor unit she dubbed "The Dump," and it was there, between 1925 and 1932, that she wrote most of Gone with the Wind.
• Marietta Confederate CemeteryCemetery · Marietta, GAFounded in 1863 when Jane Glover donated a corner of her plantation to bury about twenty Confederate soldiers killed in a train wreck north of town, the cemetery swelled during the Atlanta Campaign into one of the largest Confederate burial grounds in the South, holding more than 3,000 dead from thirteen states.
• Marietta/Cobb Museum of ArtMuseum · Marietta, GAA block off Marietta Square, the museum occupies a Greek Revival building raised in 1909 to serve as the town's post office, a role it held until 1963 before housing the Cobb County library and finally becoming a fine arts museum in 1990.
• Marrero's Guest MansionInn · Key West, FLCigar maker Francisco Marrero built this Victorian mansion to bring his beloved Enriquetta to the island, where they married and raised eight children.
• Mary the WandererLandmark · St. Simons Island, GAIn the antebellum era, a young woman named Mary of St.
• Memory Hill CemeteryCemetery · Milledgeville, GALaid out as Cemetery Square in Milledgeville's 1803 plan for Georgia's frontier capital, Memory Hill grew into a burial ground for governors, legislators, an Old West train robber, and patients of the old state asylum, with the writer Flannery O'Connor resting beneath a flat stone in Section A.
• Menger HotelInn · San Antonio, TXOpened in 1859 beside the Alamo, the Menger is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi and one of the most documented haunted hotels in America, said to host dozens of spirits.
• Mercer-Williams HouseHouse · Savannah, GABuilt for the family of songwriter Johnny Mercer, this mansion became famous as the setting of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." It was here that antiques dealer Jim Williams shot his young assistant Danny Hansford in 1981, setting off a saga of four murder trials.
• Mojito's Cuban-American BistroRestaurant · Norcross, GAMojito's Cuban-American Bistro occupies a storefront in Norcross's historic downtown district, a block of late-19th and early-20th-century buildings along South Peachtree Street.
• Moon River Brewing Co.Restaurant · Savannah, GABefore it poured beer, this building was the City Hotel, and later served as a hospital and morgue during the fever years.
• Morton TheatreTheater · Athens, GABuilt in 1909-1910 by Monroe Bowers "Pink" Morton, the Morton Theatre is one of the oldest surviving vaudeville houses in the nation built, owned, and operated by an African American, hosting acts like Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Bessie Smith.
• Mount Hope CemeteryCemetery · Dahlonega, GAMount Hope Cemetery is the oldest public burial ground inside Dahlonega's city limits, its first known interment dating to 1833 — the same year the gold-rush town was founded — and it earned its official name in 1884 after years of being called simply the Gold City Cemetery.
• Muriel's Jackson SquareRestaurant · New Orleans, LAMuriel's Jackson Square occupies a French Quarter building rebuilt after the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, restored to grandeur by owner Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan as a home for his family.
• National Civil War Naval Museum at Port ColumbusMuseum · Columbus, GABuilt along the Chattahoochee River, the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus houses the salvaged hulls of Confederate warships, including the CSS Jackson and the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee, alongside flags, weapons, and the uniforms of sailors who died at sea.
• New Orleans Pharmacy MuseumMuseum · New Orleans, LABuilt in 1823 as the apothecary and home of Louis J.
• O.C. White's Seafood & SpiritsRestaurant · St. Augustine, FLThe coquina-block building at 118 Avenida Menendez was raised in the 1790s and later became home to the widow and daughters of General William J.
• Oak Grove CemeteryCemetery · Brunswick, GALaid out by the City of Brunswick in 1838 as its first public burial ground, Oak Grove holds more than 1,200 graves beneath ancient live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, including some 115 Union and Confederate soldiers and hundreds of unmarked and unknown dead.
• Oak Grove CemeteryCemetery · Fall River, MAEstablished in 1855, Oak Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of the entire Borden family — murdered father Andrew, stepmother Abby, sister Emma, and Lizzie herself, whose ground-level marker is simply engraved 'Lizbeth.' The Borden plot is so visited that black directional arrows are painted on the cemetery roads leading to it from the Prospect Street granite arch.
• Oakland CemeteryCemetery · Atlanta, GAFounded in 1850 as Atlanta Cemetery on six acres southeast of the young city, Oakland grew to 48 acres and now holds an estimated 70,000 burials beneath its oaks and magnolias.
• Oakland HallHouse · Eatonton, GABuilt in the 1800s, Oakland Hall stands behind a wide colonnaded porch on Greensboro Road in Eatonton, a private estate that has weathered two centuries of Putnam County history.
• 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.
• Oconee Hill CemeteryCemetery · Athens, GAEstablished in the 1850s on the banks of the North Oconee River beside what is now the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium, Oconee Hill is regarded as one of the finest Victorian-era cemeteries in the South and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
• Old Burying Point (Charter Street Cemetery)Cemetery · Salem, MALaid out by 1637, the Old Burying Point is Salem's oldest graveyard, its leaning slate stones crowded onto less than an acre beside the Charter Street Historic District.
• 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 Governor's MansionMuseum · Milledgeville, GACompleted in 1839, the Greek Revival mansion served as Georgia's executive residence through the antebellum years and the Civil War, its kitchens run for decades by free and enslaved staff before the capital moved to Atlanta and the house passed to Georgia College.
• 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.
• Olde Harbour InnInn · Savannah, GAOnce a row of cotton warehouses along the river bluff, the Olde Harbour Inn keeps a gentle ghost the staff call Hank.
• Orange HallHouse · St. Marys, GACompleted in 1838 for Presbyterian minister Reverend Horace Pratt and his father-in-law John Wood, Orange Hall rose as one of Georgia's finest temple-form Greek Revival houses, its Doric portico shaded by the orange trees that gave it a name.
• Owens-Thomas HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAAn architectural jewel of Regency Savannah, the Owens-Thomas House is best known today for its remarkably intact urban slave quarters.
• Panola HallHouse · Eatonton, GAPanola Hall, a stately Greek Revival mansion with fluted Doric columns, was built in 1854 for Henry Trippe along Eatonton's crown-jewel stretch of North Madison Avenue, later home to banker-botanist Dr.
• Patrick Henry's Pub & GrilleRestaurant · Richmond, VAStanding a block from St.
• 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.
• Peyton Randolph HouseHouse · Williamsburg, VABuilt around 1715 and home to Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress, this house is routinely called one of the most haunted in America.
• Pirate's AlleyLandmark · New Orleans, LAA narrow 600-foot cobblestone passage beside St.
• Poogan's PorchRestaurant · Charleston, SCBuilt as a private Victorian home in the late 1880s, the house at 72 Queen Street opened as Poogan's Porch in 1976, named for a neighborhood dog who lingered as its self-appointed greeter until his death in 1979.
• Powel HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PABuilt in 1765 and bought in 1769 by Samuel Powel, Philadelphia's last colonial and first post-independence mayor, this Georgian Society Hill mansion hosted George Washington, John Adams, the Marquis de Lafayette and Benedict Arnold at the Powels' famous parties.
• Price Memorial HallLandmark · Dahlonega, GAPrice Memorial Hall stands on the foundation of the 1838 Dahlonega Branch U.S.
• Prince George Winyah Episcopal ChurchChurch · Georgetown, SCDating to the 1740s, with its first service held in 1747, Prince George Winyah is one of Georgetown's oldest churches and anchors a historic burial ground in the heart of the district.
• 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.
• Public HouseRestaurant · Roswell, GABuilt in 1854 as a commissary for the workers of the nearby Roswell Mill, the building at 605 Atlanta Street was one of the few structures Gen.
• Pyatt-Doyle HouseHouse · Georgetown, SCThe Pyatt-Doyle House is a centuries-old dwelling on Highmarket Street in Georgetown's historic district, and its haunting centers on a sorrowful female figure.
• 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.
• Rankin HouseHouse · Columbus, GABuilt for Scottish-born planter and hotelier James Rankin, this high-style Italianate mansion rose between 1860 and 1870, its construction interrupted by the Civil War before it became the finest home in the city.
• Restaurant 1796 at The Myrtles PlantationRestaurant · St. Francisville, LARestaurant 1796 sits on the grounds of the Myrtles Plantation, named for the year General David Bradford built the main house.
• Reynolds SquareSquare · Savannah, GALaid out in 1734 as one of Savannah's earliest squares and later named for royal governor John Reynolds, this leafy green once held the colony's Filature, where silkworms were raised in a failed bid to spin a Georgia silk industry.
• Rhodes HallHouse · Atlanta, GAFurniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes raised this Romanesque Revival castle of Stone Mountain granite on Peachtree Street in 1904, naming it "Le Reve" — the Dream — after the Rhineland castles he and his wife Amanda admired in Germany.
• Riondo's RistoranteRestaurant · Galveston, TXNow an Italian restaurant in Galveston's historic Strand District, Riondo's occupies a building that once served as a private home.
• 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.
• Riverside CemeteryCemetery · Asheville, NCFounded in 1885 as a garden-style cemetery in the Montford neighborhood, Riverside is the resting place of roughly 13,000 people, including authors Thomas Wolfe and O.
• Riverview HotelInn · St. Marys, GABuilt in 1916 on the banks of the St.
• Ropes MansionHouse · Salem, MABuilt around 1727 for the merchant Samuel Barnard, this Georgian mansion at 318 Essex Street passed in 1768 to Judge Nathaniel Ropes and stayed in his family until 1907; today it is a Peabody Essex Museum historic house, familiar to many as Allison's home in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus.
• Rose Hill at Lockerly ArboretumHouse · Milledgeville, GADaniel Reese Tucker bought the property in 1851, then rebuilt it after fire into the columned Greek Revival mansion completed in 1852, now the centerpiece of the 50-acre Lockerly Arboretum.
• Rose Hill CemeteryCemetery · Macon, GANewspaper publisher and civic promoter Simri Rose laid out Rose Hill Cemetery in 1840 along the bluffs of the Ocmulgee River, designing it as both a public park and a burial ground in the new garden-cemetery style.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic SiteMuseum · St. Francisville, LADaniel and Martha Turnbull built Rosedown's main house in 1834-35, surrounding it with formal gardens Martha modeled on the great gardens of France and Italy.
• Rylander TheatreTheater · Americus, GABilled as "the finest playhouse south of Atlanta" when it opened in 1921, the Rylander Theatre filled downtown Americus with vaudeville, films, and graduations until it went dark in 1951, sitting silent for nearly half a century before a loving restoration brought it back to life in 1999.
• 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.
• Samuel Pickman HouseHouse · Salem, MAThe Samuel Pickman House, a weathered first-period saltbox built around 1664 at the corner of Charter and Liberty streets, is one of Salem's oldest standing homes; it now abuts the 1992 Witch Trials Memorial and the Old Burying Point cemetery, and the Peabody Essex Museum, which bought it in 1983, reopened it as the cemetery's welcome center.
• San Fernando CathedralChurch · San Antonio, TXBegun in 1738, San Fernando is among the oldest cathedrals in the United States and contains a marble sarcophagus said to hold the commingled remains of Alamo defenders, recovered in a 1936 renovation when a box of charred bones, nails, and tattered uniform fragments was unearthed near the old sanctuary railing.
• Sans SouciHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1896 on the millionaires' retreat of Jekyll Island, Sans Souci was one of the first condominium-style apartment buildings in America, its six units reserved for a handful of Club founders including financier J.P.
• 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.
• Schilo's DelicatessenRestaurant · San Antonio, TXSchilo's, a German-Texan deli founded by 'Papa' Fritz Schilo in 1917 and at its downtown location since 1942, is the oldest operating restaurant in San Antonio, famous for its house-made root beer, split pea soup, and Reuben sandwiches.
• Shields TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAThis Duke of Gloucester Street tavern traces to 1705, when it operated as Marot's Ordinary under Jean (John) Marot, an early Williamsburg tavern keeper; it later became Shields Tavern under James Shields and is now a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining site.
• 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.
• Six Pence PubRestaurant · Savannah, GAA British couple from across the Atlantic, Wally and Doris, opened a snug alehouse on Bull Street that became "Wally's Sixpence," a home away from home for expatriates and locals alike.
• 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.
• Soldiers' National CemeteryCemetery · Gettysburg, PAEstablished just four months after the three-day battle of July 1863, the Soldiers' National Cemetery was laid out by landscape designer William Saunders in a sweeping semicircle of graves grouped by state and radiating from a central monument, the resting place of more than 3,500 Union dead.
• Sorrel-Weed HouseHouse · Savannah, GAThe Sorrel-Weed House is one of the most investigated homes in America, and its history earns the reputation.
• Southeastern Railway MuseumMuseum · Duluth, GAGeorgia's official transportation history museum sits on a sprawling Duluth rail yard, where among its ninety-plus pieces of rolling stock rests the Pullman private car "Superb," built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
• Southern Oaks InnInn · Lavonia, GACharles P.
• Spangler's SpringPark · Gettysburg, PASpangler's Spring sits at the south base of Culp's Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg unfolded on July 2-3, 1863, and where thirsty soldiers from both armies are said to have drawn water during the lulls; the War Department capped the spring in stone in 1895 after years of heavy use.
• Spanish Governor's PalaceMuseum · San Antonio, TXThis 1749 adobe-and-limestone building, the only surviving example of an aristocratic Spanish colonial residence in Texas and a National Historic Landmark, served as the residence and offices of the captain of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar.
• Spanish Military Hospital MuseumMuseum · St. Augustine, FLReconstructed in 1966 on its original foundations, the Spanish Military Hospital recreates a ward from St.
• Springer Opera HouseTheater · Columbus, GAOpened in 1871 and now a National Historic Landmark, the Springer Opera House drew the great tragedian Edwin Booth to its stage in the 1870s, where his celebrated turn as Hamlet helped rebuild a career shadowed by his brother John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin.
• St. Augustine LighthouseLandmark · St. Augustine, FLCompleted in 1874 on Anastasia Island, the St.
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic ChurchChurch · Eureka Springs, ARDedicated May 11, 1909, St.
• St. Francis InnInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1791 by Gaspar Garcia, a sergeant in Spain's Cuban infantry regiment, the St.
• St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease RuinsCemetery · Beaufort, SCBuilt around 1740 of tabby by enslaved laborers as a chapel of ease for planters who struggled to reach the parish church in Beaufort, this Anglican chapel was abandoned after Union troops invaded in 1861 and was gutted by a forest fire in 1886.
• St. Helena's Episcopal ChurchChurch · Beaufort, SCFounded in 1712 with its sanctuary built in 1724, this brick church sits at the heart of Beaufort's historic district, its walled graveyard shaded by ancient live oaks.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1Cemetery · New Orleans, LAEstablished in 1789 just beyond the old city limits, St.
• St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchChurch · Key West, FLSt.
• St. Simons Island LighthouseLandmark · St. Simons Island, GARebuilt in 1872 after Confederate troops dynamited the original tabby tower, the 104-foot St.
• Statue of Mary MeinertCemetery · Marietta, GAIn St.
• Strickland HouseHouse · Duluth, GAAlice Harrell Strickland and her husband Henry built this Victorian home in 1898, where they raised seven children before Henry's death in 1917.
• 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.
• Sugar Hill Historic CemeteryCemetery · Sugar Hill, GAEstablished in 1886, Sugar Hill Historic Cemetery anchors the city's downtown with more than 1,500 marked burials, and in recent years ground-penetrating radar revealed 130 additional unmarked graves — among them fourteen infants clustered near the community center and twenty paupers laid to rest, unmarked, during the lean Depression years.
• Sultan's Palace (Gardette-LePretre House)House · New Orleans, LAThis Greek Revival mansion with its distinctive cast-iron filigree balconies was completed around 1836 for Philadelphia dentist Joseph Coulon Gardette and purchased in 1839 by planter Jean Baptiste LePretre.
• Sword Gate HouseHouse · Charleston, SCBuilt around 1803 and expanded over the following decades, the mansion at 32 Legare Street became home in 1819 to Madame Anne Talvande's exclusive French boarding school for young ladies, where the strict headmistress raised high masonry walls to keep her charges safely enclosed.
• T.R.R. Cobb HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt around 1834 as a modest "Plantation Plain" house and given in 1844 as a wedding gift to Confederate Constitution author Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and his wife Marion Lumpkin, the home gained its distinctive octagonal wings and Doric portico by 1852.
• Taylor-Grady HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in the mid-1840s by Irish immigrant and planter Robert Taylor, this stately Greek Revival home was purchased in 1863 by Major William S.
• Telfair AcademyMuseum · Savannah, GABuilt as a family mansion and left to the city as one of the oldest public art museums in the country, the Telfair still seems to answer to Mary Telfair.
• 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 Artist HouseHouse · Key West, FLBuilt in the 1890s, this ornate Queen Anne mansion was the lifelong home of painter Robert Eugene Otto and his wife Anne, a concert pianist, and is the original home of Robert the Doll.
• The Baldpate InnInn · Estes Park, COHoneymooners Gordon and Ethel Mace homesteaded this mountainside in 1911 and opened the Baldpate Inn in 1917, naming it after the mystery novel Seven Keys to Baldpate.
• The Bell HouseHouse · Valdosta, GABuilt around 1870 on North Ashley Street, this grand old home took its name from Dr.
• The Bryan MuseumMuseum · Galveston, TXThe Bryan Museum occupies the building of the former Galveston Orphans' Home, constructed in 1895, damaged in the 1900 Storm, and rebuilt to reopen in 1902.
• The Buford HouseHouse · Tombstone, AZThis two-story adobe was built in 1880 by George Washington Buford, an early Tombstone settler who made his fortune in mining; over the years it served as a boarding house, private home, and bed-and-breakfast, and reportedly once hosted John Wayne.
• The Byrd TheatreTheater · Richmond, VAThis ornate 1928 movie palace in Carytown, named for Richmond founder William Byrd II, is famous for its gilded interior, Wurlitzer organ, and a long-running resident ghost: Robert Coulter, who managed the Byrd for 43 years from its 1928 opening until 1971 and died in 1978.
• 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 Clinkscale (Mile High Inn)Inn · Jerome, AZBuilt in 1899 on the ashes of a burned-out building, this Main Street structure was given thick fire-resistant walls and later became associated with Jerome madam Jennie Banters, one of the territory's wealthiest businesswomen.
• The Grand 1894 Opera HouseTheater · Galveston, TXBuilt in 1894 by theatrical manager Henry Greenwall with $100,000 raised from local backers, the Grand survived the 1900 Storm and reopened, going on to host Harry Houdini, Sarah Bernhardt, and other touring stars.
• The Gunter HotelInn · San Antonio, TXThe Gunter, opened in 1909, is tied to one of San Antonio's most chilling unsolved crimes.
• The House of the Seven GablesHouse · Salem, MABuilt in 1668 for sea captain John Turner on Salem's waterfront, the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion passed to mariner Samuel Ingersoll in 1782, and his daughter Susanna later inspired her cousin Nathaniel Hawthorne to immortalize the house in his 1851 novel.
• The Jefferson HotelInn · Richmond, VAOpened in 1895 as Lewis Ginter's grand showpiece and designed by Carrere and Hastings, the Jefferson is a Beaux-Arts landmark once famous for live alligators kept in its marble pools.
• The Marshall HouseInn · Savannah, GAThe Marshall House has welcomed guests since 1851, but it spent the Civil War as a Union hospital and, by some accounts, a place where amputations were performed.
• The Merchant HotelInn · Buford, GAWhen the Merchant Hotel opened in downtown Buford in the early 1890s, it was the nicest and only lodging between Atlanta and Gainesville; travelers stepped off the train at the depot across the street, climbed to the second-floor lobby, and took home-cooked meals on the veranda.
• The Myrtles PlantationInn · St. Francisville, LABuilt circa 1796 by General David Bradford and now a bed-and-breakfast, the Myrtles is routinely called one of America's most haunted homes.
• 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 Olde Pink HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt in 1771 for James Habersham Jr., the Olde Pink House is one of the few mansions to survive Savannah's great fires.
• The Oldest Drug StoreMuseum · St. Augustine, FLOn the corner of Orange and Cordova streets, the Oldest Drug Store stands on ground that old town maps mark as a Native American village — a Tolomato mission settlement later absorbed into the Spanish colonial city, its people displaced.
• The Omni Grove Park InnInn · Asheville, NCThe Pink Lady is Asheville's most famous ghost, reported at this 1913 stone resort for nearly a century.
• The ParsonageHouse · Norcross, GABuilt around 1910 as a family home in Norcross's railroad-era historic district, the white frame house was bought by Catholics in the 1960s for use as a rectory and then served in the 1970s as the parsonage for an Episcopal congregation who worshipped in the old Methodist church nearby.
• The Partridge InnInn · Augusta, GAPerched on Augusta's Summerville hill, the Partridge Inn began in 1836 as a private residence and grew into a sprawling Southern hotel after Morris Partridge converted it in 1892, its long verandahs and white columns earning it a place among the Historic Hotels of America.
• 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.
• The Pirates' HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt near the old seamen's wharf, the Pirates' House was a rough tavern where sailors drank, and where some were drugged and dragged through tunnels to waiting ships, never to be seen again.
• The Plaza Arts CenterTheater · Eatonton, GABuilt around 1916 as the Eatonton School, the building at 305 North Madison Avenue once housed every grade in Putnam County before its 2008 rebirth as a 500-seat theater and cultural center, complete with a lovingly restored early-20th-century classroom.
• The Rice Museum (Old Market & Kaminski Building)Museum · Georgetown, SCGeorgetown's Rice Museum occupies two 1842 landmarks downtown: the clock-towered Old Market and the adjacent Kaminski Hardware Building, which later held a hardware store and now houses the Prevost art gallery.
• The Southern MansionInn · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1863 by Philadelphia industrialist George Allen and designed by architect Samuel Sloan, this opulent bracket-style estate served as the Allen family's summer home for over 80 years.
• The Stanley HotelInn · Estes Park, COBuilt in 1909 by Stanley Steamer inventor F.O.
• The Stanley Hotel Concert HallTheater · Estes Park, COBuilt in 1909 as a gift from F.O.
• The Strand TheaterTheater · Georgetown, SCThe Strand opened on Front Street in 1941 as a movie house, sat vacant through the 1970s, and was bought in 1982 by the Swamp Fox Players, the community troupe that still stages live theater there.
• The Tremont HouseInn · Galveston, TXHoused in the 1879 Leon H.
• The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House)House · Salem, MABuilt around 1675, this dark-gabled house on Essex Street was the home of Jonathan Corwin, a local magistrate who sat on the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the 1692 witch trials and helped send nineteen people to the gallows.
• The Wren's NestHouse · Atlanta, GABuilt around 1870 as a farmhouse and later wrapped in ornate Queen Anne flourishes, the Wren's Nest was home to journalist Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales, from 1881 until his death in 1908.
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial (Old Kentucky Home)Museum · Asheville, NCThis rambling Victorian boarding house, now a North Carolina State Historic Site, was run by Julia Wolfe, mother of novelist Thomas Wolfe, who immortalized it as 'Dixieland' in his 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.' During the 1918 influenza epidemic, Thomas's older brother Ben died of the flu in an upstairs bedroom at age 26, a loss central to the novel; visitors often pause outside that room and report a chill or faint footsteps in the upper hallway.
• 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.
• Tift TheatreTheater · Tifton, GAThe Tift Theatre has anchored downtown Tifton's Main Street for generations, a single-screen movie house turned community stage where the lights still come up on local productions.
• Tolomato CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLBuilt on the site of a former Guale Indian village and Franciscan mission, Tolomato Cemetery served as St.
• Tombstone Courthouse State Historic ParkMuseum · Tombstone, AZBuilt of red brick in 1882 in a Victorian style, the Cochise County Courthouse served justice for decades before becoming a state historic park and museum.
• Triangular FieldPark · Gettysburg, PAOn July 2, 1863, this small, sloping triangle of stone-walled ground behind Devil's Den became one of the bloodiest patches of the second day at Gettysburg, where the 124th New York "Orange Blossoms" charged into wave after wave of Confederate fire before the Union line was finally crushed.
• 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.
• Turner's Seafood at Lyceum HallRestaurant · Salem, MAThe brick hall at 43 Church Street rose in 1831 when the Salem Lyceum Society built its lecture stage atop ground that period records describe as the former apple orchard of Bridget Bishop, the first person hanged in the 1692 witch trials.
• 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.
• Unitarian Church GraveyardCemetery · Charleston, SCBegun in 1772 and finally completed in 1787 after British troops quartered in it during the Revolution, the Unitarian Church in Charleston is the oldest Unitarian church in the South and a National Historic Landmark, its graveyard left deliberately wild because the congregation believes the dead should not be disturbed.
• Vic's on the RiverRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt in 1859 to a John Norris design, the building above the Savannah River bluff began life as a cotton warehouse and shipping office, and during the Civil War its rooms were commandeered by General Sherman's officers — one of whom sketched a battle map of the march directly onto a plaster wall, rediscovered during a later renovation and now preserved behind glass in the dining room.
• Victoria's Black Swan InnHouse · San Antonio, TXThis Victorian home on Salado Creek sits on land tied to the 1842 Battle of Salado Creek and a far older Native American site, giving it a reputation as one of the most haunted homes in Texas.
• Villa OspoHouse · Jekyll Island, GADesigned in 1927 by John Russell Pope, the architect of the Jefferson Memorial, Villa Ospo was the winter retreat of Standard Oil director Walter Jennings, who with his wife Jean turned the Spanish-eclectic cottage into the unofficial welcome house of the Jekyll Island Club.
• Washington InnRestaurant · Cape May, NJHoused in an 1840 former plantation residence and now one of Cape May's most acclaimed restaurants and wine bars, the Washington Inn is said to be haunted by a young girl the staff named Elizabeth.
• Washington SquareSquare · Philadelphia, PAOne of William Penn's five original 1682 squares, this leafy park near Independence Hall sits atop a mass grave.
• Windsor HotelInn · Americus, GAOpened in 1892, the Windsor Hotel rose over downtown Americus as a red-brick Victorian palace of towers, balconies, and a three-story atrium lobby, drawing politicians and celebrities fleeing northern winters.
• Windward HouseInn · Cape May, NJA circa-1905 Edwardian seaside cottage on Jackson Street now run as a bed-and-breakfast inn, Windward House is said to be haunted by a spirit the owners call Bridgette, an Irish girl described as appearing in a dress of shiny gold fabric.
• Worley Homestead InnInn · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1845, this antebellum home in Dahlonega became the Worley family's homestead in 1865, just after Captain William J.
• 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.
• Wright SquareSquare · Savannah, GAWright Square rests on far older ground than its monuments suggest.
• Wrightsboro Methodist ChurchChurch · Thomson, GARaised between 1810 and 1812 by a fading Quaker-turned-Methodist settlement, this clapboard church is nearly all that survives of Wrightsboro, a backcountry town that had withered into a ghost town by 1920.
• Wynne-Russell HouseHouse · Lilburn, GAThomas Wynne and his wife Mary Prince Benson settled this upper-Piedmont farmstead in 1826, raising fourteen children in a Plantation Plain house whose handmade Georgia-clay brick fireplaces and original interior still stand.