Top Halloween Destinations: Sleepy Hollow, Salem, New Orleans, and European Favorites
Travel guides highlight top Halloween destinations for 2026, spanning both US and European cities .
US Destinations:
Sleepy Hollow, New York: Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze with 7,000+ hand-carved pumpkins, haunted hayrides, Washington Irving's Sunnyside
Salem, Massachusetts: Ghost tours through Old Burying Point Cemetery and the Witch House
New Orleans, Louisiana: Krewe of Boo parade, voodoo and cemetery tours, Frenchmen Street costume celebrations
Savannah, Georgia: Bonaventure Cemetery, ghost tours through historic squares
European Destinations:
Derry, Northern Ireland: Europe's largest Halloween festival with four-day celebration inside 400-year-old city walls
Edinburgh, Scotland: Samhuinn Fire Festival, underground vault ghost tours, Greyfriars Kirkyard
Transylvania, Romania: Bran Castle Halloween night party
