5 Awesome Halloween Date Ideas Across the U.S.

A Tell-Tale Heart

If your idea of a hot date is less a stationary screening and more of a 30-mile bike ride, then a Halloween health kick is just the thing. A zombie-themed race like Run for Your Lives (Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 26) or the Zombie Run (Portland, Ore., also on the 26th) is fun, fit and frightening. But if you're the kind of couple who prefers to walk your way to better bodies, why not spend a day finding your way out of a corn maze: the three-mile Great Vermont Corn Maze outside Burlington takes most adults between two and three hours to complete!Face Your Foodie Fears

If the torment of a haunted house lacks the sophistication your dating life is used to, opt for a wine-filled dinner for two that doubles as a spine-tingling culinary adventure.

Challenge your arachnophobia at Typhoon, a pan-Asian restaurant with a picturesque view of the Santa Monica airport. Their menu features a rotating selection of insect delicacies like silkworm pupa stir-fried and served with dipping sauces.

If Achluophobia is more your thing, you'll love Opaque, a restaurant franchise with locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Dallas that serves a four-course prix fixe meal in total darkness. Once you overcome your fear of the dark, you'll be able to enjoy a meal with a heightened sense of taste and smell. And no one's going to see you playing footsie under the table.

The Costumed Affair

If all this blood, guts, and monsters is too much for your stomach, don't worry, there is a whole other side to Halloween—dressing up! New Orleans and Key West, Fla., are known for their outdoor Halloween parades and are a great place to show off your clever couples costume and gawk at the mind-boggling creativity of others. (Sadly, New York's iconic Village Halloween Parade is in jeopardy of cancellation, but you can help save it by donating to its Kickstarter campaign.)

If a dance party is more your speed, dress down for the slightly erotic Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball in Las Vegas. Sophisticated celebrity-spotting revelers should check out the KCRW Masquerade Ball in Los Angeles, which features five themed rooms of music, magic, and costumed mayhem. And Hocus Pocus fans will delight to know there really is a big Halloween costume ball in Salem, Mass. It's called the Salem Witches Halloween Ball and this year it'll be held on Oct. 25 at Salem's Hawthorne Hotel.

—Written by Benjamin Solomon for HowAboutWe

What's the spookiest date you've ever been on? Any other fun ideas to add?

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