Discover the places behind history's most infamous crimes
In 1888, Jack the Ripper terrorised the impoverished streets of Whitechapel in East London, killing at least five women in a series of brutal and unsolved murders. Today, guided tours trace his path through the neighbourhood's dark history. From as little as $13, visitors can follow the original crime scenes with expert guides.
Chicago's darkest history comes to life on a 90-minute bus tour covering landmarks from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle. The Crime and Mob Bus Tour takes passengers through the streets that shaped America's most notorious gangster era. Tickets start at around $35.
Grave Line Tours takes visitors through Charles Manson's Los Angeles, exploring the city through criminal stories from its darkest past. The tours cover Manson Family murder sites and locations tied to the Black Dahlia case. Active tours are available in 2026.
Walk in the footsteps of the mob through Hell's Kitchen, Five Points and Little Italy — New York offers some of the world's most visceral true crime experiences. Guided tours take visitors through the city's most notorious neighborhoods, tracing decades of organized crime and murder. From street-level history to insider accounts, NYC's true crime tours deliver the story behind the headlines.
On 28 February 1986, Sweden's prime minister was shot dead on an open street in Stockholm. Today, visitors can retrace the killer's exact escape route step by step.
Paris holds far more than art and romance. A unique exhibition and a series of guided tours bring the city's darkest history to light, exploring notorious serial killers and their crimes. Visitors can trace the shadows of French criminal history through authentic artifacts and expert-led walks.
Follow in a killer's footsteps through Nyhavn, Amalienborg and Rundetårn on one of Copenhagen's most chilling crime experiences. These guided walking tours challenge visitors to crack a fictional 19th-century murder case across the city's most iconic landmarks.
Dresden's baroque streets hide a violent past. Several bookable true crime tours now bring the city's darkest chapters to life after dark.
Witchcraft executions, medieval death sentences and hidden dark history — Zurich's sinister past is waiting to be explored on foot.
Ghost City Tours leads adults through Nashville's murderous past — mobsters, mayhem, and haunted landmarks — on a 90-minute night walking tour.
Paris hides centuries of murder beneath its elegant façades. These verified tours take you from Revolution-era execution grounds to FBI-profiled serial killers.
Grave Line Tours takes small groups through Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, and Chatsworth in a funeral limo — retracing the Manson Family's murderous 1969 spree.
BlackBook Tours leads small groups through Munich's old town, uncovering centuries of murder, executions, serial killers and terrorism from €29.99.
Vienna's imperial façade hides a chilling criminal past. Explore the city where serial killer Jack Unterweger stalked the red-light district in 1990–1991.
A 3-hour night-time walking tour through Washington DC visits the sites of presidential assassination, political scandal, and federal crime.
In 1980s Miami, cocaine cartels smuggled 75 tons of drugs and made billions. Today, guided tours take you through the streets where it all happened.
From the factory floors where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau — Krakow holds the weight of the Holocaust in stone and silence.
Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood harbours the real addresses where Ted Bundy lived, hunted and hid evidence. A guided tour puts you there.
Las Vegas built its glittering reputation on mob money. These two experiences put you face to face with the organised crime history behind the neon.
From the 1907 Crown Jewels theft to the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Dublin's streets hold more dark history than most cities dare admit.
Opened in 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia pioneered solitary confinement — and today welcomes visitors inside its crumbling cellblocks daily.
At 60 Andrássy út, Budapest, the House of Terror museum preserves the cells, torture chambers and gallows where two dictatorships destroyed lives.
From the 1621 Old Town executions to unsolved cold cases and Communist terror, Prague's darkest history is mapped across its cobblestones.
Boston's true crime walking tours bring the city's darkest chapter to life — tracing the 1960s killing spree attributed to Albert DeSalvo through the streets of one of America's oldest cities.
From H.H. Holmes' murder castle to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago's mob bus tour puts America's darkest history on full display.
A guided walking tour takes visitors through 500+ years of murder, kidnapping and theft at real crime locations in Cologne's historic city centre.
Amsterdam's canals hide centuries of crime. Small-group walking tours expose notorious heists, unresolved murders, and underworld secrets lurking beneath the city's beauty.
From a wrongful execution on Queen Street to the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing, Brisbane's criminal past runs deep. Here's how to walk it.
From Renaissance poisonings to Caesar's assassination, Rome's streets hide centuries of murder, betrayal and punishment — and guided tours bring it all to life.
In 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people in Edinburgh's Old Town. Today, several guided tours retrace their deadly steps.
Explore New York City's darkest history on foot — from the 19th-century gang strongholds of Five Points to the terror of Son of Sam. Guided true crime tours take visitors to the real locations where infamous crimes unfolded.
In 1692, twenty people were executed in Salem, Massachusetts. Today, guided walking tours retrace the exact streets where hysteria became lethal.
From the 1834 LaLaurie torture chambers to a post-Katrina cannibal case, New Orleans offers some of the darkest walking tours in America.
A guided tour through St. Pauli traces the murder sites of serial killer Fritz Honka and the violent pimp wars that defined the district in the 1980s. The neighbourhood's notorious streets reveal decades of organised crime, prostitution, and bloodshed. Few areas in Germany carry a darker criminal legacy than this stretch of Hamburg's waterfront quarter.
Guided true crime tours take visitors to historic crime scenes across Munich. Tours run 120 to 150 minutes and start from 25 euros.
Guided true crime tours in Berlin take visitors to historic crime scenes, execution sites, and murder cases spanning from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The tours offer a chilling look at the darker chapters of one of Europe's most storied cities.
Private Eye Tours has guided visitors through Seattle's darkest crime scenes since 1997, covering Ted Bundy, Kurt Cobain and the city's worst mass murder.
Dark Stories True Crime Tours runs 90-minute guided walks through Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Maitland, revisiting infamous Australian crime scenes.
Chicago Crime Tours runs a bus tour through the Windy City covering H.H. Holmes, Al Capone, John Dillinger and the city's darkest chapters.
Zodiac Tours guides visitors through real Bay Area crime scenes tied to one of America's most notorious unsolved serial killer cases.
Guided walking tours through London's Whitechapel district retrace the 1888 Ripper murders, with handheld projectors revealing Victorian streetscapes.
On the night of June 16–17, 2000, Peter Lundin murdered his girlfriend Marianne Pedersen and her two sons in Rødovre, Denmark. He was sentenced to life in prison for the triple killing, and the bodies have never been found.
In 1892, H.H. Holmes constructed a three-story building in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood that would become synonymous with some of America's first confirmed serial murders. What locals called the 'Murder Castle' was actually a hotel marketed to World's Fair visitors—a place where at least six confirmed victims vanished.
Between December 1968 and October 1969, an unidentified killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, claiming at least five lives across multiple counties. Known only as the Zodiac Killer, this serial murderer taunted police with cryptic letters while leaving behind a mystery that remains unsolved decades later.
In 1995, 17-year-old Birgitte Tengs was found strangled on a rural path near her home in Karmøy, close to the Norwegian city of Stavanger. Her unsolved murder became one of Norway's most notorious cases, with locals marking the crime scene as the 'Scream Route'—a grim landmark in a community still seeking answers.
Between August and November 1888, an unidentified serial killer murdered at least five women in the poverty-stricken streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields in London's East End. Though the killer was never caught, the murder sites remain accessible to visitors today.
