SALEM! Witch City Tour Guide

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Salem, Massachusetts packs four centuries into a few walkable blocks.

SALEM! is a pocket guide to all of it — the 1692 witch trials, the maritime fortune that came after, the haunted corners, and the restaurant you're standing outside right now.

WALK THE HISTORY!

An interactive map plots the sites that matter, with two walking routes drawn through them and the history attached to every stop. Read the trials as a ten-part timeline, or meet 35 of the people who lived them — the accused, the accusers, the judges, and the ones who spoke up.

FIND WHAT YOU NEED, NOW!

Thirty-plus categories cover the practical as well as the historic: restaurants, bars and breweries, shops, hotels, museums, galleries, music venues, parks, places of worship, parking and public restrooms — with addresses, phone numbers, hours and one-tap directions.

PLAN YOUR DAY!

Save the places you like and the app puts them in a sensible walking order, then walks you stop to stop. Free self-guided tours are built in, and you can start from one or from a blank slate. Check the events calendar, the live forecast and severe-weather alerts before you set out — Salem is a walking city, and the weather has opinions.

OCTOBER IN SALEM!

A dedicated Halloween section puts the Haunted Happenings season in order: kickoff, the grand parade, the marketplace, candlelight ghost walks, the psychic fair and the ball.

ASK ANYTHING!

An AI guide answers questions in plain language and knows which screen you came from, so "what happened here?" is a complete question. Screens can read themselves aloud, in a voice and speaking rate you choose.

YOUR SALEM, TOO!

Send in your own photos of the city and browse the visitor gallery.

WHEN YOU'RE RESTING!

Tarot, runes, I Ching, palm reading and a birth chart. A quiz spanning the trials, maritime history and local trivia. And Witch Flight, a one-thumb arcade game with a chiptune soundtrack.

IF YOU NEED HELP?

A directory of Salem shelters, food, recovery and mental-health resources, put together by someone who used them.

ELEVEN LANGUAGES!

English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Cantonese. Not just the buttons — every location write-up, biography, timeline entry and restaurant listing is translated.

BUILT TO RESPECT YOU!

No account. No sign-in. No ads. No analytics or tracking SDKs. Your location puts a dot on the map and never leaves your device. Guide content ships inside the app, so browsing it costs nothing but battery. An internet connection is needed for map tiles, live weather, the AI guide and the photo gallery.

Built by a Salem local who wrote much of it on a phone, while unhoused, hanging out on Essex Street. Every screen comes from walking this city day and night for years.

SALEM! is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Salem. Hours, prices and availability change — please confirm with each business before you go.