Best Things to Do in York

York's walled Old Town is compact enough to see most of on foot in a day: York Minster and the Shambles' crooked medieval streets are the obvious anchors, but the city's reputation as one of Europe's most haunted also makes it one of the few places where a ghost walk is a genuinely mainstream, well-reviewed activity rather than a novelty. Book an evening ghost tour alongside a daytime history walk and you'll cover both sides of what the city is known for.