Attractions & Tours
America's Best Haunted Tours
Tours, attractions, and experiences across America — booking direct where we can, vetted affiliate partners where we can't.
28 attractions
West
Thriller West
8 listings
Stanley Hotel Tours
The Colorado grand hotel where Stephen King spent room 217's famous night and left with The Shining — daily history-and-hauntings tours, the night spirit tour, the hedge maze, and the fourth floor's children who never checked out.
Winchester Mystery House
Sarah Winchester's 24,000-square-foot San Jose labyrinth — 160 rooms, stairs to ceilings, doors to nowhere, built continuously for 38 years on a rifle fortune and a legend of appeasing its victims. Architecture as haunting.
The Queen Mary
The 1936 Art Deco ocean liner permanently docked at Long Beach — WWII troopship, 49 documented deaths, the B340 stateroom they rent to the brave, and ghost tours through the pool room and engine spaces below the waterline.
Alcatraz Night Tour
The Rock after the day boats leave — a small-boat evening crossing, the cellhouse at dusk with programs the day crowds never see, and the hole's cell 14D with the lights going down over the bay. The best ticket in San Francisco.
Whaley House Museum
The haunted house of Old Town San Diego — an 1857 brick home built near the site of a public hanging, open by day for self-guided visits and after dark for haunted tours and paranormal investigations.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Where Old Hollywood rests and still throws a party — palm-lined grounds behind Paramount with Valentino, DeMille and Johnny Ramone, the Lady in Black legend, and summer movie nights among the graves.
Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone's Old West burial ground — the graves of the men killed at the O.K. Corral, outlaws, miners and the famous Lester Moore epitaph, on a desert rise for a small entry fee.
Bodie State Historic Park
America's best-preserved ghost town — a Gold Rush boomtown left in arrested decay on a high Sierra plateau, with its own curse, for a modest state park fee.
Deep South
Thriller Deep South
7 listings
New Orleans Ghost Tours
The French Quarter after dark — vampire legends, the LaLaurie Mansion's true-crime horror, voodoo history, and 300 years of fire, fever, and burial-above-ground — walked nightly by the country's deepest bench of ghost-tour guides. The category's capital.
Savannah Ghost Tours
America's most haunted city by most rankings — a town literally built on its dead, toured by candlelit walk, open-air hearse, and dead-of-night cemetery visit, with the Sorrel-Weed House and the Mercer Williams House as its dark crown jewels.
Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah's most beautiful and most haunting ground — a free, city-run Victorian cemetery on a river bluff under live oaks and Spanish moss, made world-famous by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
St. Augustine Ghost Tours
The oldest city in America — 460 years of Spanish garrisons, pirates, plagues, and the lighthouse whose keeper's daughters still get reported on the stairs — toured by lantern through streets older than the republic by two centuries.
Charleston Ghost Tours
The Holy City after dark — the Old City Jail's documented horrors, pirate hangings at White Point, church graveyards behind wrought iron, and the antebellum beauty whose shadow side the night tours walk nightly.
The Myrtles Plantation
The 1796 Louisiana plantation billed as one of America's most haunted homes — the Chloe legend, the mirror that photographs wrong, nightly mystery tours under 220-year-old live oaks, and overnight rooms for those who stay past the telling.
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
Birmingham's iron-age cathedral and Alabama's most haunted industrial site — a free, walkable blast-furnace complex with a legendary foreman ghost, guided tours and ghost tours.
New England
Thriller New England
4 listings
Salem Witch Trials History & Ghost Tours
The 1692 witch hysteria's home town, now October's world capital — trial-site walks, the Witch Museum, the memorial's quiet benches, nightly ghost tours, and a Halloween month that draws a million visitors to a city of 44,000.
Lizzie Borden House
The Fall River house where the 1892 axe murders happened — toured daily room by actual room, investigated by night, and bookable as a bed and breakfast where guests sleep in the murder rooms. True crime's most committed attraction.
Ghosts and Gravestones Boston
Boston's dark side by trolley and lantern — a roughly 90-minute guided tour of colonial executions, plagues, grave robbers and the old burying grounds, led by a costumed guide in character.
Boston Historic Burying Grounds
The Puritan dead along the Freedom Trail — Granary, King's Chapel, Copp's Hill and Central burying grounds, open daily and free, carved with winged skulls and holding Revere, Hancock and the Boston Massacre victims.
Mid-Atlantic
Thriller Mid-Atlantic
4 listings
Gettysburg Ghost Tours
The bloodiest battlefield in American history — 51,000 casualties over three July days in 1863 — toured by lantern through the town that became one vast field hospital. The hauntings here carry weight no invented story can match.
Eastern State Penitentiary
The world's first true penitentiary — a crumbling Gothic castle in Philadelphia whose solitary-confinement system broke minds by design, toured in daylight ruin year-round and transformed each fall into Halloween Nights, the country's benchmark haunted-attraction event.
Washington DC Ghost Walking Tour
The capital's haunted history in an hour on foot — presidents who never left, Lafayette Square's old scandals and the federal city's darker stories, starting behind the Treasury Building.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
The Headless Horseman's home ground — a free Hudson Valley cemetery where Washington Irving is buried among Gilded Age mausoleums, beside the old Dutch church and burying ground of his legend.
Midwest
Thriller Midwest
3 listings
Ohio State Reformatory
The Shawshank prison, open nearly every day of the year — a Romanesque castle of a reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, with the tallest free-standing steel cell block in the world, a warden family tragedy, and ghost walks and lights-out hunts on select nights.
Chicago Guided Haunted Tour
A park built on a graveyard — an hour-long evening walk through Lincoln Park, where Chicago once buried its dead, starting at the Tin Man statue in Oz Park.
Missouri State Penitentiary
Once called the bloodiest 47 acres in America — a 19th-century prison in Jefferson City with dungeon cells, a gas chamber and ghost tours, ghost hunts and overnight investigations from spring through late autumn.
South
Thriller South
2 listings
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
The most famous haunted hospital in America — a five-story tuberculosis sanatorium on a Louisville hilltop, its body chute and fifth floor walked in the dark on paranormal tours and all-night investigations.
Hollywood Cemetery Richmond
Two presidents, a granite pyramid and the Richmond Vampire legend — a 19th-century garden cemetery on the hills above the James River, free to walk and one of the most evocative in the South.
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