Hotel Provincial

Paradise Valley, Arizona is a supremely small municipality within the enormous confines of Phoenix’s own Maricopa County. Affluent by nature, this wealthy area was carved out a long time ago European migrant settlers in the late 1880s. As Phoenix and nearby Scottsdale were annexed and grew into their own, Paradise Valley became an area that commanded commercial attention. One of the premier places to stay in this sun-dried desert locale is The Hermosa Inn. Read more…

It’s often said that ghosts haunt the place where they met their untimely demise when murder is involved. Dating to 1911, this Cheyenne hotel is said to be haunted by the groom of a jealous bride, his lover and the jilted bride herself. It all started with a recently wedded couple who decided to spend their honeymoon at this particular hotel. As the story goes, the bride went in search of her new husband and found him at a nearby bar – in the company of another woman. Read more…

Castellated with turrets and battlements, the imposing Gothic-styled West Virginia Penitentiary looked every bit as intimidating on the outside as it was violent on the inside. Prison breaks, riots, and scores of executions on inmates for a prison constructed to hold 480 people before swelling to over 2,000 in the decades to follow. Even the object of a Supreme Court case in 1986, the prison was eventually decommissioned and inmates transferred elsewhere. Read more…