The Van Gilder Hotel

📍 Seward, Alaska

Built in 1916, the Van Gilder Hotel has watched more than a century of Seward history pass through its halls. Railroad workers, politicians, travelers, and maybe a few ghosts have all stayed here. The hotel’s most famous resident is said to be Fannie Guthrie-Baehm, a woman whose death remains surrounded by conflicting stories. Guests still report footsteps, moving objects, and sightings of a woman in old-fashioned clothing wandering the upper floors.