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Texas State Capitol
Every October, the state's own Rest in Peace tours of the Capitol tell of Comptroller Robert Love, shot at his desk in 1903, and of a woman who vanishes through a door that isn't there.
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Sutro Baths
Adolph Sutro's 1896 bathhouse could hold 10,000 people before a 1966 fire left only ruins, and legend says a candle left in its sea tunnel will be thrown into the ocean by a ghost.
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Cameron House
Cameron House, the Chinatown mission home that sheltered trafficked girls, was dynamited as a firebreak in 1906 and rebuilt in 1908. By the time author Julia Flynn Siler first visited, it was "mostly famous for being haunted."
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Old Town Hall
Salem's oldest surviving town building went up in 1816 and 1817 where merchant Elias Derby's mansion stood, and legend has it Derby's ghost haunts it, still unhappy that his house was torn down.
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Proctor’s Ledge
Researchers confirmed in 2016 that this rocky ledge, now a small memorial in a residential neighborhood, is where 19 people convicted of witchcraft were hanged in 1692, and guides say many believe the souls of the hanged still fly around it as orbs.
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Salem Witch Jail
A plaque on Federal Street marks where Salem's 1692 jail held people accused of witchcraft. The Salem Night Ghost Tour says one of them, four-year-old Dorothy Good, still searches the ground for her mother.
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Site
Seven men were machine-gunned against a garage wall here on February 14, 1929, and though the garage came down in 1967, dogs are said to react to the spot and the wall's scattered bricks to carry a curse.
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H. H. Holmes Murder Castle Site
The so-called murder castle of H. H. Holmes, the 1890s killer, stood on this Englewood corner until the 1930s. Postal workers in the building on its site have told of strange goings-on in the basement.
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Eastland Disaster Memorial
The steamer Eastland sank in the river here on July 24, 1915, killing 844 people, and Chicago's ghost guides say faces still show in the water below the Clark Street Bridge.
