Other
cool sites across
Archives and Research
- ResearchBuzz - a collection of items on search engines, online databases, and other information resources
- Library of Congress
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Internet Archive
- Oral History Association
- Shorpy – The 100-year-old Photo Blog
- Digital History – A guide to gathering, preserving
and presenting the past on the web
- Center for History and New Media
- Zotero - a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help collect, manage, and
cite research sources.
Public History and Culture
- American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA)
- H-Net.org - an international interdisciplinary History & Social Sciences organization
- National Council on Public History (NCPH) - professional association devoted to the study and practice of public history
- Public History Resource Center
- Public History Resource Guide - a list of sites for research
Road Side
- Roadside America - they are the best.
- American Diner Museum - in
- Diners: Still Cookin' in the 21th Century - an exhibit of diner history from the collection of Richard J. S. Gutman
- Roadfood
- Jane & Michael Stern's food site
- Roadside Architecture
- Ghost Towns - abandoned towns
and villages throughout
- Roadside Peek - a roadside journal through time
Weird
- Eccentric America
- Shocked &
Amazed - sideshow and freak show
archivists
- Find-a-Death - dead celebrities, dead celebrities, and more dead celebrities!
- Burning Man - weird
art event in the
- Found Magazine - a magazine dedicated to found objects
- News of the Weird - Chuck Shepherd's popular column
- Weird America Blog - blog your way to weirdness
- Sideshow World - more sideshow, freak, and circus archives
- Show History - circus, sideshow, and freak historians
- Talk Like A Pirate Day - it's an international holiday...honest
- Mutter Museum - dedicated to medical curiosities
Cemetery Studies
- The Association of Gravestone Studies
- Taphophilia.com - everything gravestone and death related
- Find-a-Grave - find your favorite celebrity gravesite
- Tomb With A View
- Obituaries 101 - listing of major newspapers' obituary pages
- The Cemetery Club - celebrates the art and history of cemeteries across the country
- Obituary Review- search for obituary listings
- Obituaries - news on obituaries continually updated from thousands of sources around the net
- Cranky Yankee's Thanatology Page - directory of links to death related subjects
Explorations & Travel
- Infiltration - based in
- Abandoned Places
- Urban Explorers
- Lost America - night photography of the abandoned roadside west
- Defunct Amusement Parks
- Route 66 Magazine - read all about the "
- Chris Epting - author of "James Dean Died Here - Locations of America’s Pop Culture Landmarks"
- The Morbid Sightseer - grim travels for the distinctly morbidly minded
- Historic Asylums of America - architectural preservation of mental institutions
- The Poorhouse Story - all about
- U.S. Route 40 -
- Legends of America - A Travel Site for the Nostalgic & Historic Minded
- Waymarking - catalog, mark and visit unique and interesting locations around the world using GPS.
- U.S. Route 1 – major east coast highway
Folklore
- American Folklore - retellings of American folktales, Native
American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories
from each and every one of the 50
- American Folklore Society - to stimulate interest and research in all aspects of the study of folklore and folklife
- American Folk - people, folklore, & popular culture
- American Folk Life Center - part of the Library of Congress
- Journal of American Folklore - archived in JSTOR-the Scholarly Journal Archive
Ghosts and Hauntings
- The Shadowlands - dedicated to informing and enlightening visitors on such topics as Ghosts and hauntings, mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot and Sea Serpents, UFOs and Aliens, and many other unsolved mysteries.
- All About Ghosts –
includes many
- Obiwan's UFO-free
Paranormal Page - covers all of the
- The Moonlit Road - Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South
- Spirit of La Llorona - unusual ghost site about the legend
- Tangled Forest - Ghosts, witches, & monsters...oh my!
- Ghosts of the Prairie
- Ghost Ships (and Planes)
Native American
- Native American Lore
Index Page - listings of stories from the various tribe across
- Native American Mythology - from Encyclopedia Mythica
- Institute of American Indian Studies
- First People - Native American text, legends, art, and general information
Phenomena
- The Anomalist - a print and web journal exploring the mysteries of Science, History and Nature
- The Fortean Times - a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on all manner of strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents
- Farshores
Worldwide Anomalous Phenomena Resource
- The Museum of Unnatural Mystery
- Freedom of Information Act Unusual Phenomena Listing - government sanctioned weirdness
- The Charles Fort Institute
- Weird Science - unconventional science
- Bigfoot Encounters
- The Cryptozoologist - the website of Loren Coleman
States and Regions
- Weird NJ - These guys
are the originals...they started it all! Travel guide to
- Haunted New Jersey
- Baltimore Ghosts
-
- Dark Passage
- a
- Forgotten New York
- Oddball New York
- Abandoned Subway Stations of New York
- Haunted New York
- Hudson Valley Ruins - in NY state
- Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike
- Haunted Pennsylvania
- Weird Pennsylvania – from the Weird NJ guys
- Maryland's Haunted Places
- Wacky DC - strange and weird places in the nation's capitol
- Washington DC Metro Area Ghost Watchers
- The Haunted Traveler - your ghostly travel guide to haunted, historical sites across the south
- West Virginia Hauntings
- Weird and
Wacky - locations in
- North Carolina Paranormal
Investigations
- N.C. Legends & Ghost Stories
- The Devil's Tramping Ground - about a N.C. phenomena
- Legends and Myths of South Carolina
- South Carolina Hauntings – from Release Me
- Unusual Kentucky
- Tennessee Trivia - including a section on Weird & Strange
- Linda Linn's Kentucky and Tennessee Ghost Stories
- The Bell Witch - famous haunting
in
- Haunted Souls - website of the Middle Tennessee Paranormal Research Society
- Ghost Hounds - paranormal investigators network from
- Foundation for
Paranormal Research - in
- Florida Paranormal Research Foundation
- Strange Florida - Charlie Carlson's site
- Northeastern Alabama Paranormal Society
- Haunted
Places in Mississippi
- Haunted Mississippi Paranormal Research
- Haunted Sites of Louisiana
- Louisiana Spectral Research Center
- Spirit Seekers - based in
- Lost in the Mid-West
- out of
- Missouri History and Haunting Society
- List of Haunted Places in Illinois
- The Force
- bringing ghost information to
- Lost Indiana
- Weird Cincinnati
- Forgotten Ohio
-
- Lost & Found Ohio
- Ohio Trespassers - urban
exploration in
- Ghosts of Ohio
- The Athens Spectre -
online zine about haunted
- Grave Addiction - cemeteries,
haunted places, abandoned buildings, and historical parks in
- DetroitYES! - ruins of
- Forgotten Michigan
- Haunted Places in West Michigan
- Weird Wisconsin
- Madison Ghostseekers Society - in
- Unexplained
Research – in
- Weird Minnesota
- Third Eye Over Iowa
- Haunted Places in North Dakota
- Ghosts of North Dakota - documenting ghost towns
- Haunted Places in South Dakota
- South Dakota Ghost Towns
- Unusual Tours of Nebraska - historical sites of gangsters, outlaws, gunslingers, ghosts, murderers, etc.
- Kansas Ghost Works
- Oklahoma Ghost Patrol
- Ghouli - Ghosts, Haunts of Oklahoma & Urban Legend Investigation
- Keep Austin Weird - collaborative fission of coordinated individualism
- Texas Twisted
- Lone Star Spirits -
in
- Weird New Mexico
- New Mexico Ghost Towns
- Arizona: Weird, Wacky & Worth a Look - an About.com site
- Arizona Ghosts N More
- ParaFPI - Colorado Paranormal Investigations and Research
- Nevada's Ghost Towns
- Dreamland Resort - world's
largest Area 51 Research website (
- From Roswell to Area
51 - road trip from
- Utah UFO Hunters
- Utah Ghost Organization
- Idaho Ghost Hunters
- Unusual Tours of Idaho
- Wyoming - Tales & Trails
- Wyoming County Investigators of the Paranormal
- Haunted Places in
Montana
- Industrial Archaeology in
California - exploring abandoned sites in
- California Haunted Places
- Beneath Los Angeles - the famous, the infamous, and just plain dead
- Exploring
the Great Northwest - mostly
in
- Ghosts, Critters & Sacred Places of Washington & Oregon
- The Oregon Vortex - strange phenomena
- Investigation of Paranormal in Alaska (IOPIA)
- Haunted
Hawaii
Misc.
- Where's George? - track your money!
- Disinformation - "hidden" information
- Snopes.com - The Urban Legends Reference Pages
- MoOM - Museum of Online Museums - online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions
- MoOM Annex - more of the same
- Professor Hex - scholar of the strange and mysterious; a blog