GHOST TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
Every city has its ghosts. We found the tour.
Voodoo and vampire walks in New Orleans, candlelit lanes in Savannah, witch-trial sites in Salem, Jack the Ripper streets in London. Real reviews of the ghost tours worth booking, in the cities with the best stories after dark.
Worth a trip for the ghosts alone
Three cities that come alive after dark.
Some places you visit for the daytime sights. New Orleans, Savannah and Salem you visit for the night: the voodoo and vampire walks, the candlelit squares, the streets where the witch trials happened. These are the cities travellers come home with a story from.
Louisiana
New Orleans
No city wears its ghosts more openly. A guide leads you through the French Quarter after dark, from voodoo queens and vampire legends to the above-ground tombs of the old cemeteries, telling the stories that gave the city its reputation. Crime, voodoo and the restless dead, all within a few candlelit blocks. Nowhere else stacks this many haunts so close together.
- 1 New Orleans Premier Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Walking Tour
- 2 Adults-Only New Orleans Ghost, Crime, Voodoo, and Vampire Tour
- 3 New Orleans Adults-Only Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Tour
Georgia
Savannah
Built on its own burial grounds and proud of it, Savannah calls itself the most haunted city in America and a candlelit walk shows you why. You move square to square under the live oaks, past the houses where the worst things happened, while a guide unspools two centuries of tragedy and the spirits said to linger. Few places are this beautiful and this uneasy at once.
- 1 Savannah History and Haunts Candlelit Ghost Walking Tour
- 2 Savannah’s Ghost City “Dead of Night” Walking Night Tour
- 3 Genteel and Bard’s Savannah Dark History and Ghost Encounter Walking Tour
Massachusetts
Salem
The witch trials never really left Salem, and an after-dark walk takes you to where they happened: the courthouse sites, the memorial, the old burying point. A guide separates the real 1692 history from the legend, then leads you down the lanes where later hauntings took hold. A town where the history is the scare, and there is plenty of it.
- 1 Salem’s Best Ghost Tour
- 2 Requiem for Salem Walking Ghost Tour
- 3 Haunted Footsteps Best Ghost & Paranormal Salem Tour
If you only book one
The ghost tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every ghost tour on the site, this is the one that sends people home swearing they felt something and telling everyone they know to book it.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Ghost Tours Right Now
New Orleans voodoo walks, Savannah candlelit squares, Salem witch-trial lanes, London Ripper streets. The nights travellers are happiest they booked.
Start with a city
The best ghost tours, city by city.
New Orleans for the voodoo and vampires, Savannah for the candlelit squares, Salem for the witch trials, London for the Ripper lanes. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the ghost tours worth booking there.
Where the stories live
Three corners of the world that do haunted best.
Still deciding where to go? Start with the kind of ghost story you are after. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a very different night among the dead waiting at the end of it.
New Orleans
Voodoo, vampires and the restless dead.
After dark in the French Quarter the city tells its darkest stories: voodoo queens and their altars, the vampire legends of the old townhouses, the above-ground tombs where the dead are buried in stone. A guide walks you block to block through the haunts, the history and the crime, the version a local tells once the tour buses have gone home.
See the best New Orleans ghost tours →Savannah
The most haunted city in America.
Savannah was built on its own dead, and a candlelit walk leads you square to square beneath the live oaks and Spanish moss, past the houses where the worst things happened. A guide unspools two centuries of yellow fever, duels and tragedy, and the spirits said to still walk the historic district. Beautiful by day, deeply uneasy once the gas lamps come on.
See the best Savannah ghost tours →London
Follow the fog down Whitechapel.
Two thousand years of plague pits, public executions and unsolved murder lie under London’s streets. After dark a guide walks you through the Whitechapel lanes of Jack the Ripper, past the old gallows and the haunted pubs, telling the stories the daylight city keeps quiet. A river of secrets, best followed on foot when the crowds have thinned.
See the best London ghost tours →Salem after dark
Where 1692 never really ended.
Salem keeps its ghosts close to the surface. An after-dark walk takes you to the witch-trial sites, the memorial and the Old Burying Point, with a guide who separates what really happened in 1692 from the legend the town grew around it, then leads you down the lanes where later hauntings took hold.
- 1 Salem’s Best Ghost Tour
- 2 Requiem for Salem Walking Ghost Tour
- 3 Haunted Footsteps Best Ghost & Paranormal Salem Tour
By nerve
How spooked do you actually want to be?
A gentle history walk through Salem. A candlelit crawl of Savannah’s most haunted squares. A full adults-only voodoo and vampire night in New Orleans. Pick the city that matches how brave you are feeling after dark.
Ease in
Salem, history first.A storytelling walk through the witch-trial sites and the old burying point, more history than scare. A guide untangles what really happened in 1692 from the gift-shop version, with just enough chill to make the lanes feel different on the way back.
Go deeper
Savannah, after the lamps come on.A candlelit walk through the squares and back lanes of the country's most haunted city, stopping at the houses with the darkest histories. Old enough to unsettle you, slow enough to enjoy, with a guide who knows which doors not to knock on.
All in
New Orleans, voodoo and vampires.An adults-only crawl through the French Quarter after dark, from voodoo altars to vampire haunts and the cemeteries in between. The full late-night version of the city's spookiest stories, told the way only a local guide tells them.
York
The most haunted city in England.
Two thousand years of Roman, Viking and medieval dead crowd York’s old walls, and the city claims more ghosts per acre than anywhere in England. After dark a guide leads you down the Shambles and the narrow snickelways, past plague houses and the cathedral, telling the stories behind the sightings, on foot or aboard the famous ghost bus that rolls through the old town at night.
See all 6 York ghost tours →By city
Pick a city to spend a night with the dead.
New Orleans for the voodoo and vampires. Savannah for the candlelit squares. Salem for the witch trials. London for the Ripper lanes. St Augustine for the lantern walks. York for the snickelways.
More cities
More cities worth a haunted weekend.
San Antonio for the Alamo ghosts, Nashville for the honky-tonk hauntings, Rome for the catacombs, Washington DC for the political phantoms. The rest of the map, ready when you are brave enough.
Three cities, three haunted nights
Pick a city, plan the night around its ghosts.
A lantern walk in St Augustine, a night at the Alamo in San Antonio, a Civil War haunting in Richmond. Three cities, three very different ways to spend an evening with the dead.
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