SAVANNAH'S NIGHTLY SPIRITS: WHERE BOURBON MEETS THE BLOODSTAINS

Savannah’s wrought-iron balconies and Spanish moss hide darker tales than tour guides usually tell. On these cobblestones, 19th-century merchants and debutantes met ends as sharp as their finery, like the infamous 1820 case of shipping tycoon Charles Harcourt, whose throat was slit with his own letter opener in a tavern now hosting bourbon tastings. The city’s "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" reputation isn’t just folklore; it’s in the way modern K-II meters spike near certain oak trees where lynchings once occurred, and how the scent of peach blossoms sometimes gives way to gunpowder near particular mansions.

"Nightly Spirits" leans into this grisly elegance with tours pairing historical crime scenes with premium bourbons, each drink chosen to mirror its era’s sins. That 18-year-old single malt? Distilled the same year a socialite poisoned three rivals at a cotillion. The handheld K-II devices aren’t props; they’re tools for guests to test Savannah’s claim that "the dead here don’t need invitations”.