A handsome 1920s timber-and-stone mansion in the American colonial style, the Laperal White House sits behind a low wall on Leonard Wood Road. Built by the wealthy Laperal family, it served as a Japanese garrison house during the war and saw — by local accounts — a series of executions and torture sessions on its grounds.
The building was empty for decades and acquired a serious reputation for being haunted. In 2007 the Laperal family sold it to a businessman who turned it into a free-to-enter museum of bamboo art; it has since changed hands again and is currently maintained as a small heritage site, sometimes open, sometimes not.
The exterior, with its white clapboards and steep gable roofs, is the main draw — a quietly unsettling piece of American-era architecture that has somehow survived in nearly its original form.