GHOST TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
Find out who walks after dark.
Cemetery walks in New Orleans, the sealed vaults under Edinburgh, the haunted squares of Savannah, the witch-trial sites of Salem. Real reviews of the ghost tours worth staying out for, in the cities with the longest memories.
Worth the trip for the ghosts alone
Three cities that never quite buried their dead.
Some places you visit for the sights. New Orleans, Edinburgh and Savannah you visit for what comes out after dark: the above-ground tombs, the streets sealed under the Old Town, the squares built over old graves. These are the cities that earned their hauntings.
Louisiana
New Orleans
No city wears its dead so openly. The tombs of St Louis Cemetery stand above ground, the French Quarter keeps its vampire and voodoo legends in plain sight, and the yellow-fever years left ghosts in half the old townhouses. A guide leads you from the cities of the dead to the haunted bars and the corners where the stories are darkest, and tells you which ones the locals still will not test.
- 1 New Orleans Small-Group Haunted History Carriage Tour
- 2 Adults Only Haunted Pub Crawl in New Orleans
- 3 New Orleans Haunted History Ghost Tour
Scotland
Edinburgh
The Old Town is built on its own buried streets. Below the Royal Mile lie the South Bridge vaults and the plague-sealed closes, and above it the kirkyards where the body-snatchers once worked. A guide takes you underground by torchlight and through the wynds the tour crowds skip, to the spots with the longest record of people refusing to go back.
- 1 The World Famous Underground Ghost Tour
- 2 Haunted Vaults Walking Tour in Edinburgh
- 3 Haunted Vaults and Graveyard Walking Tour in Edinburgh
Georgia
Savannah
They call it the most haunted city in America, and it was built over its own graves. The squares sit on old burial grounds, the antebellum mansions keep their restless residents, and Bonaventure Cemetery is a tour in itself. A guide walks you under the moss-hung oaks square to square, naming the houses, the hauntings and the histories that earned the city its reputation.
- 1 Savannah Ghosts & Gravestones Trolley Tour
- 2 Haunted Savannah Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour
- 3 Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour
If you only brave one
The ghost tour more travellers talk about than any other.
Out of every haunted walk on the site, this is the one people come back raving about and daring their friends to book.
The ones everyone books
The Most Popular Ghost Tours Right Now
New Orleans cemeteries, Edinburgh vaults, Savannah squares, Salem witch-trial sites. The nights travellers are gladdest they were brave enough to book.
Start with a city
The best ghost tours, city by city.
New Orleans for the cemeteries, Edinburgh for the vaults, Savannah for the haunted squares. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the ghost tours worth booking there.
What kind of haunting
Three kinds of dark to choose from.
Some nights you want a graveyard, some a sealed vault, some the true story of what happened here. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a different sort of haunting waiting at the end of it.
New Orleans
The dead are buried above the ground.
In New Orleans the cemeteries are cities of their own, the tombs stacked in marble above the water table. A guide walks you through St Louis Cemetery and the French Quarter after dark, past the voodoo queens and yellow-fever ghosts, and tells you which legends the locals still treat as fact.
See the best New Orleans ghost tours →Edinburgh
Down into the buried city.
Beneath the Royal Mile run the South Bridge vaults and the plague-sealed closes, whole streets walled up and forgotten. A guide takes you underground by torchlight, through the wynds the daytime crowds never see, to the chambers with the longest record of visitors asking to turn back. This is the most haunted ground in Britain, and the dark is genuinely dark.
See the best Edinburgh ghost tours →Charleston
Follow the lantern down the cobblestones.
Charleston keeps its ghosts in the alleys behind the antebellum mansions: the Old City Jail where the condemned waited, the churchyards on the peninsula, the gas-lit lanes south of Broad. A guide leads you by lantern past the haunted houses and the dueling grounds, telling the stories the city would rather you heard after sundown.
See the best Charleston ghost tours →Salem after dark
Where the witch trials really happened.
In 1692 Salem hanged nineteen of its own on the word of frightened children. A guide walks you to the trial sites, the old burying point and the houses still standing from that year, separating the history from the gift-shop legend, then on to the hauntings the town has gathered in the centuries since.
- 1 Salem’s Best Ghost Tour
- 2 Salem Voodoo, Vampires, and Ghosts Guided Walking Tour
- 3 Salem Ghost Tour: Witches & Wicked Whispers
How brave are you
How dark do you want the night to get?
A lantern stroll through Savannah's squares. A cemetery walk in New Orleans after the streetlights. A torch-lit descent into the Edinburgh vaults. Pick the city that matches how much of a scare you actually want.
Easy does it
Savannah, by lantern light.A storyteller walks you square to square through the old town, naming the houses and the hauntings as the live oaks drip Spanish moss overhead. History and a few good shivers, nothing that follows you home.
A real chill
New Orleans, after the streetlights.Into the French Quarter and the cities of the dead, where voodoo, vampires and yellow-fever ghosts share the same blocks. A guide takes you past the tombs and the haunted bars to the corners the daytime crowds never feel.
Lights out
Edinburgh, beneath the streets.Down into the sealed vaults and the plague-era closes under the Old Town, lit by nothing but the guide's torch. The most haunted ground in Britain, walked the way the bravest visitors ask for it.
Savannah
A city built on its own graves.
Savannah laid out its famous squares over old burial grounds and never quite moved everyone. The result is the city most often called the most haunted in America: antebellum mansions with permanent residents, a riverfront with a grim past, and Bonaventure Cemetery resting under the Spanish moss. A guide walks you square to square after dark, naming the houses, the hauntings and the histories that earned the reputation.
See all 35 Savannah ghost tours →By city
Pick a city and meet its ghosts.
New Orleans for the cemeteries. Savannah for the haunted squares. Edinburgh for the underground vaults. Charleston for the lantern walks. St Augustine for the oldest streets. Gettysburg for the battlefield dead.
More cities
More cities that come alive after dark.
Galveston for the hurricane dead, Salem for the witch trials, London for the Ripper's streets, York for England's most haunted city. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three hauntings
Pick a city, pick your kind of ghost.
A battlefield at dusk in Gettysburg, the four-century streets of St Augustine, the hurricane dead of Galveston. Three cities, three very different reasons the dead stayed.
The league of the restless
The ten most haunted cities we cover.
The places with the most ghosts to meet, by the number of tours we have reviewed. Start at the top, or scroll for the one nearest your next trip.
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