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Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Columbus Ghost Tours

Columbus, OH

Columbus Ghost Tours is a locally owned Columbus, Ohio ghost-tour operator running walking tours of downtown Columbus and German Village, after-hours storytelling tours at the city's historic Green Lawn Cemetery, and paranormal-investigation events at partner venues including Thurber House, the Ringside Cafe, the Cultural Arts Center, and the Central Ohio Fire Museum.

$$ 12+ for the Creepy Columbus, German Village, and Civil War Ghosts of Green Lawn Cemetery tours; 18+ (car required) for Night at Green Lawn Cemetery; 21+ for Booze & Boos and the Ringside Cafe investigation, which visit bars serving alcohol Family: Moderate
Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

American Ghost Adventures Orlando

Orlando, FL

American Ghost Adventures (AGA) is a locally owned, Orlando-based paranormal tour company founded by lead investigator Ting Rappa, operating for more than 20 years as Central Florida's longest-running ghost tour agency. Its Orlando program runs eight distinct products through downtown Orlando, the Orange County Regional History Center, and Greenwood Cemetery.

$$ Varies by product; most investigations are family-friendly (parental discretion advised), the True Crimes Investigation is recommended for ages 10+, and the Haunted Pub Crawl is 21+. Family: Moderate
The RMS Queen Mary ocean liner permanently moored at Long Beach, California, its three red funnels and black hull visible from the harbor
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Queen Mary

Long Beach, CA

The RMS Queen Mary was constructed at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard beginning in 1930, launched September 26, 1934, and sailed her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936. Requisitioned as a troopship in 1939, she carried 810,000 soldiers under the nickname 'The Grey Ghost.' The ship has been permanently moored in Long Beach, California since December 1967.

$$ All Ages (Paranormal Ship Walk 13+; Graveyard Tour 16+) Family: Moderate
Fort Sumter in Charleston — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Nightly Spirits Charleston

Charleston, SC

Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running public and private programs in about 20 U.S. cities, including a Historic Downtown Charleston route with a kid-friendly pirate-themed option. The company has been recognized as a top-rated U.S. ghost tour by USA Today in multiple years.

$$ 21+ for the Booze and Boos Tour; All Ages for the Swashbuckling Spooktacular Ghost Walk; 18+ for the Nightmares and Nightcaps Tour; 9+ for school field trips Family: Moderate
Long wing of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium's Gothic brick facade, Louisville, Kentucky; present-day exterior.
Asylum / Hospital

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, KY

Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 on a Jefferson County ridgeline as a tuberculosis treatment facility for Louisville's epidemic-affected population. The current five-story Gothic building, capable of housing more than 400 patients, was completed in 1926. The facility closed in 1961 following streptomycin's introduction, operated briefly as a geriatric center until 1980, and has been a paranormal attraction since 2001.

$$ Historical tours: all ages. Paranormal tours and investigations: varies by event — check site. Family: Not Recommended
Denver Union Station in Denver — a stop on this tour.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Nightly Spirits Denver

Denver, CO

Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running a Denver program centered on LoDo, meeting at Celtic on Market and covering Denver Union Station and the Oxford Hotel; a second South Broadway route is currently private-booking-only.

$$ 21+ for the Denver Booze & Boos Tour (LoDo); All Ages for the Denver Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk Family: Moderate

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The Old Stone House at 3051 M Street NW in Georgetown, the first stop on the tour's listed itinerary.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Georgetown Ghost Tours

Washington, DC

The Washington walk of an Old Town Alexandria tour company, new in 2026, from the Old Stone House to the Exorcist Steps.

$$ Children 6 and under attend free per the booking page; a Tripadvisor listing for the tour gives ages 7 and up, with groups capped at 25. Family: Moderate
Gadsby's Tavern at night, at North Royal and Cameron Streets in Old Town Alexandria, with people gathered on the sidewalk; a stop on the tour's North Route.
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Alexandria Colonial Tours

Alexandria, VA

A locally based Old Town company that dates its lantern-lit ghost walk to 1985 and now also runs pirate, holiday and history tours.

$ All ages welcome at parental discretion; the operator has described the tour as best for ages 9 and up, and children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Family: Moderate
Bone Heads Restaurant & Tavern, an 1865 building at 10256 Willis Road in Willis, Michigan
Haunted Dining / Bar

Bone Heads Bar B Que

Willis, MI

The building at 10256 Willis Road dates to about 1865 and has served the Washtenaw County community of Willis as a coach stop, grainery, butcher shop, ice house, post office and general store. It was restored in a general-store style in the mid-1980s and has operated as Bone Heads Bar B Que since 2009.

$$ All Ages Family: High
The white wood-frame Dixboro General Store building at the Plymouth Road and Cherry Hill Road crossroads in Dixboro, Michigan
Other Dark Tourism Site

Dixboro General Store

Ann Arbor, MI

The Dixboro General Store has occupied an 1840 building in the unincorporated village of Dixboro, within Superior Township, since the community's early settlement, serving over the following 150 years as a post office, barbershop corner, dance hall, gas stop and hot dog stand before a 1990 restoration as a home-furnishings and gift shop.

$ All Ages Family: High
The 1880 Chelsea Depot on Jackson Street, across the street from the museum where Haunted Chelsea begins
Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Haunted Chelsea Walking Tour

Chelsea, MI

The Chelsea Area Historical Society, formed in 1974, runs Haunted Chelsea as an October fundraiser. The 90-minute walks leave from the society's museum in the 1853 Boyd House at 128 Jackson Street, across the street from Chelsea's 1880 railroad depot.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The brick exterior of the Michigan Firehouse Museum, a former 1898 fire station in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Museum / Historical Site

Michigan Firehouse Museum

Ypsilanti, MI

The Michigan Firehouse Museum occupies a Romanesque Revival fire station in Ypsilanti's Depot Town, built in 1898 and worked as an active firehouse until 1975. Howard and Norma Weaver bought the building and opened it as a museum in 1998, incorporating as a nonprofit in 1999 and adding a 26,000-square-foot expansion in 2002.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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