Top 10 US Halloween Party Destinations 2011

10. New Orleans, Louisiana

If you want to have the biggest and the wildest party ever, then going to the Big Easy should be your thing. With the event lasting for four days, you are sure to experience everything at your own pace. You can go clubbing with the vampires at the Anne Rice fan club; attend the Ghoulish Gala at the Hotel Monteleone, and dance with the Goths at the Endless Night Festival.

9. Beverly Hills, California

The Playboy mansion is not just about sending guys to “heavenly pleasure”, it is also a venue for a nice Halloween event. The whole place is designed to look just as creepy as other ghouly mansions with gargoyles, gravestones, and even alien robots. Since this is the “mansion”, you need to have the essential credentials for you to attend and enter.

8. Los Angeles, California

Care to enjoy the party in the streets of Santa Monica Boulevard? Why not? After all, this is one long party when it comes to distance and coverage. Guys, girls, gays, lesbians, and other people coming from all walks of life are enjoying this event. You can see everyone in nice costumes, hot outfits, and other pop culture displayed all over.

7. San Francisco, California

Halloween Massive will be celebrated in the Bay Area where 20,000 costumed partygoers would be enjoying a night of sounds and a whole lot of clubbing on the streets with the best DJs. Wearing a dandy costume can win you $1,000 if you have what it takes.

6. Las Vegas, Nevada

The city of lights and sounds get to become creepier and more fun in the Halloween. Be sure to prepare your costume as not having one can charge you $40 if you are too lazy. You make sure to be awake for the event in order to appreciate fire breathers, belly dancers and laser cannons inside the haunted house.

5. Greenwich Village, New York

And you thought that NYC has the best places for Halloween parties! Halloween feels better when celebrated in a lowly place, such as a village. After all, this is where everything began. Despite of the venue however, it has been hailed as one of the best places to celebrate an event in October 31.

4. Houston, Texas

Get to celebrate Halloween with leather jackets, black make-up, and an all-gothic getup. This is the place where tattoo enthusiasts, piercing fans, and other extremists get an award. You get to enjoy the event with a masquerade, a haunted house, concerts, and even abnormal food vending where exotic food is sold. This is the party where fun and horror is too close for comfort.

3. Tampa, Florida

Particularly in Ybor City, the Latin-flavored Halloween celebration called Guavaween is celebrated by people of all ages. There are Family Funfests that fills the streets from 10am to 3pm. It has rides, food, contests, parades, and daytime trick or treating. At night, the Halloween spirit becomes tenser with a risqué attitude.

2. Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania

Fantasizing being a vampire hunter becomes a reality as you celebrate Halloween in this venue. Everything begins in a four-hour treasure hunt, not for gold or cash, but for the vampire host of the event, Count Miniescule. It happens in the dark and scary woods. And two winning teams can get $200 and an honorary in the Grave Digger’s Ball.

1. Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is the known place where witches, warlocks, and Celtics have been famous. The Festival of the Dead is organized by the witch elders and takes its party goers to an experience in a voyage to the “Underworld”, a voodoo ceremony, lessons in necromancy, and dancing something fetish. You can also attend a workshop on how to use the Ouija board.