Do places or things have souls?

Have you ever been to a place, or a building, or even seen a car, and it's given off a sense of immense weight or emotion behind it? It hasn't done anything, it can't communicate with words or expressions, but it has somehow communicated something with you. As I grow older, it seems that certain things have this weight to them. I understand that sometimes we, as people, can give meaning to certain things, and that can affect our experience. Some people put meaning behind food because it was their greatest memory growing up and cooking with a loved one. Anytime that person steps in front of a stove, they can get into that headspace and feel that emotion again. While someone else just sees cooking as a means to eat/survival, leading to a very different experience. So I completely understand how certain things can be so important to certain people, or just a complete waste of time to others. If it happens over and over again with tons of people with the same thing, though, is it a coincidence, or is there something more?

My question is not so much about experiences but about items or places themselves. Don't certain places hold certain weight or feelings more than others? If you're a New Yorker and you've been to the Ground Zero Memorial... that place is HEAVY. Your attitude changes, and that weight is palpable. Now, I know I am a New Yorker, so I might be putting more energy into that memorial since it hit close to home. It's not just Ground Zero, though. I remember going to Woodstock at a running camp and there just being a heavy vibe there, the field where the Battle of Gettysburg happened, they all felt different. It's this overwhelming feeling of "something happened here." Once again, these are more momentous places, so it's possible that I and others can bring personal feelings into this.

So I'll take a step back from places and talk about things, buildings, or objects. The same concrete, plaster, pipes, wire, sheetrock, wood, etc., for some reason, certain places or objects hold things. I'm not just talking about the White House and other iconic buildings. I mean older buildings in general. Old factories, 110+ year-old houses, etc. Any place that has some age to it seems to have more pull and something more interesting to it than a brand new house. The same goes for cars; new cars look great and are fun, but for some reason, you sit in a 1950s automobile with crank windows and knob radio, and it just feels different... you feel the car. I think you can put two identical old cars next to each other, and the room would gravitate towards one more than the other, and nobody would know why; it's just a feeling. Driving this feels better, sitting in it feels better. Even antique furniture is being brought into brand new homes to give "charm" or life to these new houses that can feel cold and lifeless.

So that's my question: do these things have souls? Or is it just charm? Or do we just give our own meaning of life to things that aren't actually alive at all? As I age, it seems so strange that all old things just feel different than new things. Things handmade have a different vibe than something made in a factory, even if the details are exactly the same, they kind of aren't. So I believe people and experiences do brush off onto these things. I do honestly believe that items can have souls. No, I don't mean they're possessed and haunted. I know it sounds crazy, but they just somehow absorb things that have happened, and the experiences of the people or things around them. Even if we are the ones "giving" these things souls, does it make it not real if other people can feel it too? Maybe I'm just crazy?

Anybody have this experience as well? Even if it's an enormous place or something as small as a personal item, for some reason you or others seem to have the same feeling about this one thing. A conversation piece that seems to attract people even if it's nothing special? Just things that have some pull toward them?