Haunted Places in Tombstone, AZ
Explore 7 haunted places in Tombstone, AZ — restaurants, theaters, cemeteries and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.
- Big Nose Kate's SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZNow named for Doc Holliday's companion Mary Big Nose Kate Haroney, this Allen Street saloon began as the Grand Hotel, which opened in September 1880 and lodged Tombstone's elite during the silver boom.
- Bird Cage TheatreTheater · Tombstone, AZOpened December 26, 1881, the Bird Cage was a combined theatre, saloon, gambling hall, and brothel that ran nearly nonstop for roughly eight years, earning a reputation as one of the wickedest spots between New Orleans and San Francisco.
- Boothill GraveyardCemetery · Tombstone, AZBoothill served as Tombstone's main burial ground from about 1879 to 1884 and is likely the most famous Wild West cemetery in the world, holding the graves of lawmen, outlaws, gamblers, women, and children, including Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury, killed in the O.K.
- Crystal Palace SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZThe Crystal Palace, whose two-story gaming parlor opened July 22, 1882, on the corner of Fifth and Allen, is one of Tombstone's most authentic and continuously operating saloons, its ornate bar witnessing more than 140 years of drinking, gambling, and gunplay tied to the era of the O.K.
- Schieffelin HallLandmark · Tombstone, AZBuilt in 1881 by Albert Schieffelin, brother of town founder Ed Schieffelin, and William Harwood, Schieffelin Hall opened June 8, 1881, as a first-class opera house, theater, and civic meeting place seating roughly 575, and it remains the largest standing adobe structure in the American Southwest.
- The Buford HouseHouse · Tombstone, AZThis two-story adobe was built in 1880 by George Washington Buford, an early Tombstone settler who made his fortune in mining; over the years it served as a boarding house, private home, and bed-and-breakfast, and reportedly once hosted John Wayne.
- Tombstone Courthouse State Historic ParkMuseum · Tombstone, AZBuilt of red brick in 1882 in a Victorian style, the Cochise County Courthouse served justice for decades before becoming a state historic park and museum.