A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops, Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales

Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water … we’re going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That’s Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to the hosts’ favorite spooky and sinister sights. The world is a scary place … and that’s why we drink!

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Hit the road with the hosts of And That’s Why We Drink for an illustrated tour of America’s best haunted and true crime sites. Jam-packed with illustrations, fun facts, travel tips, and beverage recs, this guide includes some of the country’s most notorious crime scenes, hauntings, and supernatural sightings. You’ll also find Christine and Em’s personal recommendations to the best local bars and ice cream parlors, oddity museums, curiosity shoppes, and more. Explore some of the most bizarre cases you’ve heard on the show, as well as exclusive new content from bayous, basements, and bars!

Organized into Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, Northwest, and Pacific States sections, the book’s stops include Boston, New York, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Nashville, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Portland, and Honolulu. Each city begins with personal memories from Christine and Em before diving into a local haunting, supernatural legend, infamous crime, or unresolved mystery.

Illustrated throughout by James Mied, A Haunted Road Atlas is part travel companion, part paranormal encyclopedia, part true crime collection, and entirely Christine and Em.

• THE OFFICIAL AND THAT’S WHY WE DRINK ROAD-TRIP GUIDE — Explore paranormal stories, true crime cases, food and drink stops, travel recommendations, podcast connections, and the hosts’ unmistakable humor.
• SPOOKY DESTINATIONS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES — The guide covers cities in six regional sections, from Boston, New York, and New Orleans to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Honolulu.
• PARANORMAL AND TRUE CRIME IN EVERY CITY — Encounter haunted theaters, ghost-filled hotels, historic séances, unsolved mysteries, notorious murders, strange disappearances, and supernatural landmarks.
• BARS, ICE CREAM, TOURS, AND ODDITIES — Find Christine’s Team Wine recommendations, Em’s Team Milkshake favorites, haunted hotels, ghost tours, curiosity shops, unusual museums, restaurants, and offbeat roadside attractions.
• INTERACTIVE FEATURES FOR PODCAST LISTENERS — Includes a road-trip scavenger hunt and links to related podcast episodes, making it easy to listen to a case while visiting its location.

Choose a city, cue up the podcast, and take the road trip where every hotel may be haunted and every roadside stop has a sinister story.

Christine Schiefer (she/her) and Em Schulz (they/them) are the hosts of paranormal and true crime podcast And That’s Why We Drink. Every Sunday, they dig into a new set of spooky ghost stories and true crime tales. After all, they’re just here for the boos! With over 100 million lifetime downloads, And That’s Why We Drink is consistently featured in the top 20 on the comedy podcast charts, and winner of the 2019 and 2021 “People’s Voice” Webby Award for Best Comedy Podcast.