You may have heard of cities where people go all out for St. Patrick’s Day and Christmas, but these cities make the top list for Halloween.
October comes with Halloween, and different parts of the country have their own traditions. Regardless of what people prefer, we put together a guide of the top Halloween places and their cultures that you can market to.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Courtesy of lyndhurst.org
Author: Washington Irving
Book: Headless Horseman
American Literature
Classic Haunts
Lantern Tours
Washington Irving’s Cemetery AKA Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Great Jack O’ Lantern
300-year-old Phillipsburg Manor
Lyndhurst Castle
Spirits of the Mummy
Frankenstein’s Monster
Phantom of the Opera
Old Dutch BuryingGround – one of the oldest cemeteries in the U.S.
Van Cortlandt Manor
Ghost of a Hessian trooper
Edgar Allen Poe
Jay Ghoul’s House of Curiosities
Salem, Massachusetts
Courtesy of Jaime Campos
Salem Witch Trails of 1962
High School History Class
26-people put on trial and sentenced to death
Witch’s circle
Witch House Museum
Judge Jonathan Corwin Home
New England town
Count Orlock’s Nightmare Gallery
The Festival of the Dead
The Official Salem Witches’ Halloween Ball
Victorian Mourning Clothes
Elvira
Mistress of the Dark
New Orleans, Louisiana
Courtesy of New Orleans Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
Krewe of Boo Paraded
French Quarter
Downtown New Orleans
3D Halloween floats
Voodoo Witcraft Festival
Endless Night Vampire Ball
Eerie Manchac Swamp
America’s Most Haunted City
“Cities of the Dead”
Marie Laveau
Royal Street
Madame Delphine LaLaurie
Chatham, Massachusetts
Kate Gould Park
Pumpkins
Edvard Munch’s painting – The Scream
Oktoberfest
Pumpkin Bowling
Apple Bobbing
Chatham’s B&Bs
St. Helens, Oregon
Halloweentown
Halloween Wonderland
Debbie Reynolds
Giant Pumpkin
Kalabar
Marnie Cromwell (Kimberly J. Brown)
The Mystery Manor Kids Haunted House
The Walk to the Underworld – giant rocks, sea creatures
Estes Park, Colorado
Courtesy of Stanley Hotel/Facebook
Historic Stanley Hotel
Stephen King – The Shinning Novel
Shinning Ball
Murder Mystery Dinner
Jack Nicholson
Elkhorn Ave. (main street)
Zombie Crawl
Halloween Dodgeball Tournament
Trail Ridge, Ute Trail (9000 BCE)
Game Drive Walls & Camps (3500 BCE)
Franklin, Tennessee
Grave Matters: Stories Behind the Stones or the ghosts