Travel

Halloween month is a bewitching time to come to the Las Vegas. If the cooler weather doesn’t do the trick, the superbly decorated haunted houses with their casts of goblins are sure to send chills down your spine.

For more than a century, a castle designed as a refuge from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake has stood in Pacifica, Calif. The fortress-like building with views of the ocean has turrets, towers and 24 renovated rooms that now are open once a month for tours.