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<title>Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark</title>
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<![CDATA[Sloss Furnaces - 
This National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama once functioned as a blast furnace, smelting iron ore with coke (a distilled charcoal made from black coal) and limestone to produce pig iron. Pig iron is used to create cast iron, wrought iron or steel. The Sloss Furnaces facility was constructe...]]>
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<title>Betsy Ross House</title>
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<![CDATA[Betsy Ross House - 
This house on Arch Street was built at some point around the year 1740. It still stands today because from roughly 1773 until 1785 it possibly served as home to Betsy Ross, commonly believed to be the creator of the first American flag. It has been said that it was here in this house that the Stars...]]>
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<title>Old Idaho Penitentiary</title>
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<![CDATA[Old Idaho Penitentiary - 
This former-territorial prison is located in Boise, Idaho and is famous today for its role in the early incarceration history of the state, including many famous inmates, as well as its reputed haunted history.  Construction on the facility began in 1890 (seven years after the federal governm...]]>
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<title>Uris Library/McGraw Tower, Cornell University</title>
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<![CDATA[The Uris Library and McGraw Tower - 
The Uris library is one of the many libraries belonging to Cornell University. Opened in 1891, it is the first Cornell building to serve solely as a library. Originally known as the University Library, the name was changed in 1962 to honor benefactor Percy Uris. The Uris Library cu...]]>
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<title>The Flavel House Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[The Flavel House Museum - 
This museum in Astoria, Oregon is rich with the history of the city, but also known today for its appearance in the 1985 film, The Goonies, as well as reports of ghostly activity attributed to its former occupants.  The house was built between the years of 1884 and 1885 for the family of Cap...]]>
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<title>Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo</title>
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<![CDATA[Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo - 
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (or King Capuchin Catacombs) in Palermo, Italy are not the average resting place for the dead. The people resting in this stone crypt range from infants, to elderly - from the average to the wealthy. The catacombs date all the way back to 1599, when pri...]]>
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<title>Miramont Castle</title>
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<![CDATA[Miramont Castle - 
Miramont Castle was built for Father Jean Baptiste Francolon, a priest who came from a family of wealthy French aristocrats. He moved to Manitou Springs, Colorado in 1892 and built a home there. In 1895 he donated that first home to be used as a sanatarium for tuberculosis patients. Manitou Springs ...]]>
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<title>Uppertown Firefighter's Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[The Building - 
This museum in Astoria, Oregon celebrates the county's firefighting past, but is also gaining a reputation in the paranormal community for its resident ghost.  The building was originally built in 1896, based on designs by architect Emil Schacht, to serve the North Pacific Brewery.  Prohibition ultimate...]]>
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<title>The Iron Island Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[The Iron Island Museum - 
Built in 1895 as a popular Methodist-Episcopal church, it was eventually taken over in the 1950s by a funeral director and converted into a funeral home. Finally in 2000, Anthony Amigone donated the building to The Iron Island Preservation Society of Lovejoy, Inc. so that they could continue ...]]>
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<title>Orts- und Anna-Göldi Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Orts- und Anna-Göldi Museum - 
This museum in Mollis, Switzerland contains a permanent exhibit dealing with Anna Göldi, the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. The museum sits a short distance from the place where Anna once lived.

Anna Göldi - 
Born in Sennwald, Switzerland, her last name is sometimes wr...]]>
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<title>The Museum of Death</title>
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<![CDATA[The Museum of Death - 
This macabre museum in Los Angeles, California is dedicated to the topic of death. Inside, visitors to the museum will discover crime scene photos from famous murders, items from the death industry, artifacts from an infamous mass suicide, artwork created by infamous killers and more. A visit to...]]>
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<title>The Whaley House</title>
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<![CDATA[The Whaley House - 
Thomas Whaley first built this house in 1857 by as a home for his family. Since its construction it has also been used as San Diego's first commercial theater, the county courthouse, and a general store. It was dedicated as a historic museum in the 1960s, which it has remained open to the public to...]]>
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<title>Sing Sing Prison Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Sing Sing Prison Museum - 
Housed in the Caputo Community Center in Ossining, NY, the Sing Sing Prison Museum stands less than half a mile from the infamous Sing Sing prison. The prison has such a reputation that it spawned both the phrases &quot;Sent up the river&quot; (a reference to the Hudson River) and &quot;The ...]]>
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<title>Ferguson Funeral Home Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Ferguson Funeral Home Museum - 
This funeral home in Scottdale, Pennsylvania provides more than just funeral and cremation services. It is also a functional museum that showcases the life's work of its namesake, William Ferguson. 

History - 
The business that would one day become known as Ferguson Funeral Home was...]]>
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<title>National Museum of Funeral History</title>
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<![CDATA[National Museum of Funeral History - 
This museum in Houston, Texas is dedicated to the history and tradition of funeral practices. The museum was founded by Robert Waltrip, a former mortician. The museum opened to the public on October 18, 1992. The museum's motto is &quot;Any day above ground is a good one.&quot; An...]]>
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<title>Siriraj Medical Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Siriraj Hospital and Siriraj Medical Museum - 
The Siriraj Hospital is the oldest hospital and medical school in Thailand. It also is one of Thailand's largest hospitals. The hospital was founded by Chulalongkorn the Great (King Rama V) in response to epidemics and the need for health care for the poor. The hospital i...]]>
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<title>Jack the Ripper and the East End</title>
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<![CDATA[Jack the Ripper and the East End -  
The Museum in Docklands in London, England was the setting for this exhibit that explored the history and legends that surround the city's most infamous resident, Jack the Ripper.  The exhibit incorporated police files, photographs, and letters that ranged from those written by the ...]]>
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<title>Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum - 
This museum at Whitefish Point in Michigan is dedicated to educating visitors about the hazards of travel on the Great Lakes. The exhibits include the histories of various wrecks as well as artifacts of maritime significance. 

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - 
Among the items on...]]>
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<title>Split Rock Lighthouse</title>
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<![CDATA[The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - 
The Split Rock Lighthouse is part of the Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota. It currently is run as a museum. The lighthouse holds a memorial event each November 10th to honor the men who perished in the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. While the park is typically c...]]>
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<title>Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum</title>
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<![CDATA[Though there are branches all over the world, London's Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is the original.  Originally opened just down the block, on Baker Street, in 1835, the original Madame Tussaud's was a sensation.  Founder Marie Tussaud (1761 - 1850) was a blend of the historical (with figures of Nelson, Wellington, Bri...]]>
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