A ghost walk with writer and raconteur David Dominé is highly recommended if you ever find yourself in Louisville, Kentucky. A mine of information, his tour is an educational and entertaining sojourn through the seriously spooky streets of Old Louisville. Packed with perfectly preserved gothic mansions, this time capsule has gained the reputation as being America’s most haunted neighborhood. On the tour, you visit the house where Kentucky couple Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis were arrested for the grizzly murder of Jamie Carroll in 2009. Dominé delves deep into the sordid details of the case, before guiding you to other haunted houses where ghostly goings on have allegedly occurred. These include the fortress-like Conrad-Caldwell mansion, pictured, one of the finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, adorned with gargoyles and all manner of opulence. Both Mr and Mrs Caldwell died in the home, and there have been many incidents that indicate she still haunts the mansion. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, it’s just a very cool way to get the inside track on a city which, incidentally, F. Scott Fitzgerald got to know quite well while stationed there. The Seelbach hotel’s grand ballroom served as the setting for Daisy and Tom’s wedding in “The Great Gatsby”, while downstairs, The Rathskeller is a subterranean grotto ballroom with strange occult and masonic symbols giving it a powerfully creepy vibe. Al Capone had secret tunnels in and out of the place. Faulkner’s line “The past is not dead. It’s not even past” is as pertinent for Gatsby and his “green light” as it is for the phantoms of Old Louisville. daviddomine.com