The Bridge of Sighs: Haunting of Venice’s Doge’s Palace Prison, Italy
There is a bridge in Venice that everyone photographs and almost no one enters. The Bridge of...
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The War That Never Ended: Haunting of Verdun Battlefield and Ossuary, France
The ground at Verdun does not look like other ground. The old battlefield rolls in low mounds and...
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The Wreck That Never Surfaced: SS Sultana and the Ghost Soldiers of the Mississippi
The Mississippi River does not give up its dead. When the steamboat Sultana’s boilers...
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The Butcher’s Cellar: Haunting of Maison Tavel, Geneva’s Oldest House, Switzerland
There is a staircase in Maison Tavel that descends below the street level of old Geneva, into...
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The Bones Beneath the Ballroom: Haunting of Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago
The Congress Plaza Hotel opened in 1893 to house visitors to the World’s Columbian...
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The Lighthouse at the End of the World: Haunting of Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada
The road to Cape Race ends where North America ends — at a cliff above the North Atlantic, on the...
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The Exile Who Returned: Ghosts of Fort Mackinac, Michigan
There are no cars on Mackinac Island. Visitors arrive by ferry, move by bicycle or horse-drawn...
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The Children of the Raj: Haunting of Shimla’s Viceregal Lodge, India
The Viceregal Lodge in Shimla is an architectural argument in stone: a full Scottish baronial...
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The Clocktower That Stops at Midnight: Haunting of Prospect Place, Ohio
Prospect Place in Trinway, Ohio earned its haunting honestly. George W. Adams built it in 1856 as...
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The Mountain That Eats Men: Haunting of Cerro Rico Silver Mine, Bolivia
Deep in the Bolivian Andes, Cerro Rico rises over Potosí like a landlord over a tenant who can...
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