No Worries. No stress. No idea where you're going.
Tell us your budget, travel style, and how much you want to know. We’ll choose a destination that fits, plan the details, and send your clues and final reveal through the mail.
The Mystery Starts Before You Leave
Your trip doesn’t begin at the airport. Before you leave, real clues start arriving in your mailbox. Then your Destination Reveal Box arrives with the destination, trip details, and a few things chosen specifically for where you’re headed.
Real Clues. Real Mail
Your clues arrive at your home, giving you something to open, inspect, and look forward to.
A Reveal Built Around Your Trip
Your Destination Reveal Box is made for your actual trip, with contents chosen specifically for where you’re going.
Planned From Scratch
No premade itinerary and no randomly assigned destination. Your trip is planned around your budget, interests, and travel style.
How Mystery Trips Work
You tell us what you like, what you don’t, and how much of the trip you want to know. We take it from there.
Tell Us About You
Complete the Curious Q&A so we know your budget, interests, travel style, and must-haves.
Choose Your Level
Decide how much you want to know before you go—from a few surprises to a completely unknown destination.
We Plan Your Trip
We choose the destination and plan the accommodations, transportation, activities, reservations, and itinerary.
Open, Pack, & Go
Your clues begin arriving, followed by the Destination Reveal Box. Once the secret is out, pack your bags and go.
Choose Your Mystery Level
You decide how much of the trip stays a mystery. Keep a little control, give up all of it, or land somewhere in between.
The Control Freak
You know the destination and major trip details, but we’ll still keep a few surprises to ourselves.
The Passport Confidential
You get a few key details ahead of time, but the destination stays under wraps.
The Trip Tease
You know the basics, but the destination and most of the trip details stay classified until the reveal.
The Cliffhanger
Full mystery. Your destination stays completely secret until the big reveal.
Choose the Type, Not the Destination
Choose a national park, island, or European mystery trip. We’ll choose the destination and plan everything around you.
The National Parks Mystery Series
You choose the kind of scenery and experiences you want. We choose the national park.
The Uncharted Islands Mystery Series
You choose the kind of island escape you want. We choose which island you’ll call home.
The European Escape Mystery Series
One continent. Dozens of possibilities. Good luck narrowing it down from there.
Current Seasonal Spotlight
Haunted History Mystery Trips
Spirited cities, historic towns, and haunted hotels—with plenty of possible destinations. Which one you’ll get is still anyone’s guess.
*Paranormal activity or experiences are not guaranteed.
Already know where you want to go?
Tell us where you want to go and what you want from the trip. We’ll handle the research, accommodations, transportation, activities, reservations, and itinerary. Same personalized planning—no mystery required.
Meet The Curious Tourist
I’m Shannon, founder of The Curious Tourist Company. I started this business because I wanted travel planning to feel more personal—and a lot more interesting. I plan mystery trips around each client’s budget, interests, and travel style, then bring the anticipation to life through mailed clues and a Destination Reveal Box.
So Where Will You Wake Up?
There's Only One Way to Find Out