Crystal Palace Saloon

Rebuilt after the fire that burned much of Tombstone in 1882, on the site of the earlier Golden Eagle Brewery, the Crystal Palace was the most elegant saloon in town, and the Earps and Doc Holliday drank here. Virgil Earp kept an office upstairs, and it was on Allen Street outside that he was ambushed and maimed in December 1881. It is still a working saloon. Staff and drinkers describe cowboys who appear at the bar and are gone when anyone looks again, glasses that move, and footsteps overhead in an empty upper floor. The staff are relaxed about it and will tell you which stools the regulars are said to prefer.