Category: Dark History Tours

Boroughs of the Dead is excited to announce our return to Queens (the original “Borough of the Dead”) with our brand new tour: Frights and Phantoms of Flushing!  Venture into the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, home to some of the oldest, best-preserved, and most significant buildings in the United States. This tour will examine the […]

  Visit the secret sixth borough of New York City: Governors Island! Location of military executions (by hangman AND firing squad!), a mass grave, two abandoned cemeteries, and history galore. This is the only tour that shows you where the bodies are buried (they’re still there). You will learn the full history of the island, […]

Summer’s winding down, so don’t miss out on this deal! Use offer code SUMMER18 for 20% off tickets to any Boroughs of the Dead tour running through September 15th, 2018!

Tickets to all Boroughs of the Dead tours are now on sale for the Halloween 2017 season. Our meticulously researched ghostly and macabre historical tours are, as always, led by expert guides who are published authors, museum educators, and seasoned storytellers.

Truman Capote lived at 70 Willow Street from 1955 to 1965. Capote never owned the house; it was owned by his friend, Broadway set designer, Oliver Smith.

This Friday, December 11th, join us in the labyrinthine streets of the West Village with a Poe-inspired walking tour! And, in honor of Poe’s perennial penury, we’re offering $5 off each ticket with the discount code POE15.

The original spirit of Yuletide has a much darker hue. Ghosts, elves, spirits, and sometimes malevolent fairies abound. It is a haunting time of year, the darkest night. In some traditions, devils and impudent sprites verge on the downright terrifying.

See the hidden gems and strange secrets of New York’s foremost Victorian cemetery. With a focus on the scandalous and lesser-known inhabitants of Green-Wood, on this tour you’ll see the final resting places of femmes fatales, revolutionaries, spiritualists, gangsters, artists and murderers.

This summer, we’re bringing back our signature “Haunted Brooklyn Heights” walking tour! Stroll through the quiet side streets of Brooklyn Heights, and enjoy the cool breezes on the promenade as you discover the haunting and ghostly histories of Brooklyn’s oldest neighborhood… but don’t let its sedate charms fool you.