In Ohio, tourism officials have created an experience around funeral home history. The Peoples Mortuary Museum in Marietta boasts a collection of classic hearses from past centuries, including this 1985 carriage. 

Peoples Mortuary Museum

The museum is part of a workin funeral home. Visitors can arrange for tours by calling ahead. 

Peoples Mortuary Museum

Visitors to Sleepy Hollow, New York., might encounter the town's resident headless horseman. 

Jim Logan/Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Matt Hill/Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

The story's setting was inspired by the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow and its burial ground. 

Jim Logan/Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

The paranormal is considered normal in stome New Orleans hotels, such as the Monteleone, where you can stay in a haunted room or ride an elevator that seems to have a mind of its own. 

New Orleans CVB

In New Orleans, "Voodoo Queen," Marie Laveau's tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is a popular tourist stop. 

Jenn Lotz/New Orleans CVB

In Scotland, the Balmoral Hotel's October guests will enjoy the hotel's Halloween Afternoon Tea, no doubt a pleasant affair worlds away from the Real Mary King's Close, a series of underground lanes and housing spaces located beneath the Royal Mile.

Rocco's Forte's The Balmoral

Charleston, South Carolina's Civil War history includes grim tools like this amputation kit, on view at The Charleston Musuem. 

The Charleston Museum