Merchant’s House Museum

Cinematic blue-hour editorial view of the Merchant's House Museum in New York City

An unusually intact 1832 Manhattan family home preserving original Tredwell furnishings, domestic history, and decades of reported unexplained experiences.

Villisca Axe Murder House

Cinematic blue-hour editorial view of the restored Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa

A restored 1868 Iowa home interpreting the unsolved 1912 murders, community history, preservation, and reported paranormal experiences.

Lizzie Borden House

Cinematic blue-hour editorial view of the historic Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts

A restored Fall River home, museum, and inn interpreting the unsolved 1892 Borden murders, Gilded Age society, trial history, and reported hauntings.

The Myrtles

Editorial illustration of the Myrtles’ veranda framed by live oaks at twilight

An antebellum property where popular ghost lore must be read against the history of slavery and the people who lived there.

Whaley House Museum

Editorial illustration of the Whaley House’s brick façade at nightfall

An 1857 brick house layered with family, civic, theater, and ghost-tour history in Old Town San Diego.

Winchester Mystery House

Editorial illustration of the Winchester Mystery House exterior at blue hour

A famously unconventional San Jose mansion where architecture, biography, and afterlife legend overlap.