This is the best tour you will get of Salem. Period. My wife and I were fortunate enough to be the only ones on a historic tour of Salem and we were blown away by how knowledgeable, gregarious, and personable our tour guide, Lara, was throughout the two-hour tour. The wealth of knowledge and insight Lara had was amazing and rather than provide us with some cookie-cuttered, scripted tour, she catered our experience to what we were most interested in learning about. For example, I am a high school English teacher and after I had told her she focused much of tour around Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and on writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, among others. She is not only a tour guide, but she is also a deeply dedicated historian and scholar of all things Salem. Her enthusiasm for the subject was infectious. There's not much else to say beyond that. I highly recommend Black Cat Tours.