WALKING TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
You want to walk it. We found the tour.
Ghost walks through the Edinburgh closes, the Royal Mile and the Ripper’s East End, Old Town loops from Prague to Dubrovnik, the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones streets you have only seen on screen. Real reviews of the walking tours worth booking, in the cities worth seeing on foot.
The three you have to try
Three walks worth crossing a city for.
A highlights stroll is a highlights stroll anywhere. The ghost walk, the old-town deep-dive and the film-location hunt are different animals, and they are the ones travellers come home talking about.
After the lamps come on
The Ghost & Dark History Walk
Every old city keeps its grimmest stories for after dark: the plague years, the public hangings, the witch trials, the closes where something is said to linger. A storyteller leads you through the lanes by lamplight, stopping where it actually happened. Edinburgh and New Orleans do it best, but every old town has its haunted half.
- 1 History and Hauntings of Salem Guided Walking Tour
- 2 New Orleans Premier Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Walking Tour
- 3 Chicago: Gangsters and Ghosts Walking Tour
Where the city began
The Old Town Walk
The oldest quarter is where a city makes the most sense on foot: the original street plan, the market square, the cathedral steps, the lanes too narrow for a car. A local walks you through a thousand years in a couple of hours and tells you which doorways have the stories. The walk to take first, in any city.
- 1 Underground Vaults Walking Tour in Edinburgh Old Town
- 2 Prague: 3-Hour Walking Tour of Old Town & Prague Castle
- 3 Dubrovnik: Old Town Walking Tour
The streets you have seen
The Film & TV Location Walk
You already know these streets, you just have not stood on them yet. The Diagon Alley shots in Edinburgh, the Game of Thrones steps in Dubrovnik, the Bridgerton crescents of Bath. A guide takes you set by set, lining up the real corner with the scene, and tells you what they faked.
- 1 Dubrovnik: The Original Game of Thrones Tour & Lokrum Option
- 2 Hobbiton™ Movie Set Walking Tour from Shires Rest
- 3 London: Harry Potter Movies Walking Tour (Kids Go Free)
Follow a thread
Walk a story, not just a street.
The reason to walk a city instead of ride through it: you can follow a single story along the exact streets it happened on, in the order it happened. Pick the thread you want to pull.
If you only book one
The walking tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every walk on the site, this is the one that sends people home telling everyone they know to book it.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Walking Tours Right Now
London ghost lanes, Edinburgh closes, Berlin’s wartime streets, the wizarding sites of Oxford. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a kind of walk
Find your kind of walking tour.
Some travellers come for the ghost stories, some for the old town, some for the streets they have seen on screen. Pick what you are in the mood for and we will show you the best of it, in every city we cover.
Where the great walks are
Three corners of the world made for walking.
Some regions reward a walking tour more than others. Each of these is a part of the world the site covers deeply, and a very different kind of day on foot waiting at the end of it.
Edinburgh
The most walkable dark history on earth.
No city packs more onto two feet than Edinburgh. The Royal Mile runs from the castle to Holyrood past closes where plague victims were sealed in; below the South Bridge the underground vaults still feel cold; and the same Old Town doubled as Diagon Alley. A guide ties the ghosts, the history and the wizarding sites into one unforgettable walk.
See the best Edinburgh walking tours →London
A different city down every lane.
London rewards walking more than any city its size, because the good stuff hides in the side streets. Follow Jack the Ripper through a Whitechapel that still looks the part, trace the Harry Potter film sites from Leadenhall to King’s Cross, hunt East End street art, or trail the Beatles and the Stones through Soho. Pick a thread and a guide pulls it through the back lanes.
See the best London walking tours →Start in the old town
A city makes sense on foot, or not at all.
The oldest quarter is where it all comes together: the original street plan, the market square, the cathedral steps, the lanes too narrow for a car. From Prague’s Old Town Square to Dubrovnik’s walls to the medina of Marrakech, an hour on foot with someone who knows it beats a week of looking at it through a coach window.
Old town walking tours →Prague on foot
A fairy tale with a darker chapter.
Prague kept its medieval core whole, which makes it one of Europe’s great walking cities. An Old Town tour runs from the Astronomical Clock through the Jewish Quarter to the Charles Bridge; come back after dark and the same lanes turn to ghosts and alchemists. A guide threads the history, the legends and the castle climb into one walk.
- 1 Prague: 3-Hour Walking Tour of Old Town & Prague Castle
- 2 Prague: Ghost Walking Tour Where Legends Come To Life
- 3 Prague: Jewish Quarter Walking Tour with Admission Tickets
By kind of walk
How do you want to walk it?
Some travellers want the easy highlights loop on day one. Some want the courtyards and lanes the day-trippers miss. Some want the old town at its eeriest after dark. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of afternoon.
Find your feet
The highlights, the easy way.A gentle loop of the old town with someone who knows it: the main square, the cathedral, the streets the postcards are shot on. The walk you take on day one to make sense of everywhere else.
After dark
The same streets, once the lamps come on.The plague pits, the hangings, the closes where the stories turn grim. A lantern, a storyteller and the old town at its eeriest, when the day crowds have gone home.
Ghost & dark history
Every old town has a haunted half.
The cheerful daytime city has a night-time twin: the plague pits, the public hangings, the witch trials, the closes where something is said to linger. A storyteller with a lantern walks you through it after the day crowds have gone, stopping where it actually happened. Edinburgh, New Orleans, Prague and York do it best, and the stories are a lot better told on the spot.
See all 57 ghost & dark history walks →By city
Pick a city to see on foot.
London for the Ripper and the Potter sites. Edinburgh for the closes and the vaults. Paris for Montmartre and the hidden passages. Rome for the old centre. Prague for the ghost lanes. Berlin for the wartime streets.
By kind of walk
Pick what kind of walk you want.
The old town if you want the highlights. A ghost walk if you want it after dark. Film locations if you came for the screen. Hidden gems, wartime history, Jewish heritage, the castle and palace climbs.
Make a day of it
One perfect day on foot.
New to a city and only have a day? Here is how to spend it walking, from the old town at dawn to the ghost lanes at night.
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