Ghost stories
San Francisco Ghost Tours: Gold and Ghouls Tour
The hour when the fog stops being scenic and starts being weather.
4.6318 traveller reviews
San Francisco1h 30m
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On the water
Alcatraz Island Evening Tour
A ferry to a decommissioned federal prison, timed so you leave in the dark.
San Francisco3h
Cinema
Hitchcock Film Locations Walking Tour
Vertigo used this city as a set and never gave it back.
San Francisco2h 30m
After dark
Chinatown After Dark Walking Tour
Alleys, family associations, and a neighbourhood that outlasted every attempt to summarise it.
San Francisco2h
Cemeteries & dark history
Colma Cemetery Belt Half-Day Tour
A town where the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. Municipal fact, not a turn of phrase.
San Francisco4h
Animal encounters
Bay Area Reptile Handling Encounter
Snakes, at close range, in a room built for exactly that.
San Francisco1h
Cemeteries & dark history
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Guided Tour
A working cemetery that screens films on the lawn in summer.
Los Angeles2h
Underground
Downtown LA Historic Theatres & Tunnels Walk
Movie palaces shut longer than they were ever open, and the tunnels under the hill behind them.
Los Angeles3h
After dark
Griffith Park Guided Night Hike
The whole basin below you in the dark, and coyotes going about their evening.
Los Angeles2h 30m
Unusual museums
Los Angeles Oddities & Curiosities Museum Visit
A collection somebody could not stop assembling, arranged by somebody who will not explain it.
Los Angeles1h 30m
Cinema
Los Angeles Horror Film Locations Tour
The houses are on ordinary streets and people live in them. That is the whole strange fact.
Los Angeles3h 30m
Cemeteries & dark history
New Orleans Cemetery & Burial History Tour
Tombs above ground in rows, like a small dense town. The reason is drainage.
New Orleans2h
Ghost stories
Dark Side of New Orleans: French Quarter Ghost Tour
A continuous local tradition rather than a costume, and the better guides treat it that way.
4.958 traveller reviews
New Orleans1h 30m
On the water
Louisiana Swamp Night Boat Tour
A flat boat, a spotlight, and a great many eyes at the waterline reflecting it back.
New Orleans3h
Unusual museums
Historic Pharmacy & Medical History Museum Visit
A nineteenth-century apothecary, preserved. Horrifying because the medicine was.
New Orleans1h
After dark
Ultimate Jack the Ripper : Guided Tour of London
The case everyone has heard of, in streets that are now something else entirely.
4.91,699 traveller reviews
London2h