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Get ready for a spooktacular night at Downtown Phoenix's ultimate Halloween festival! Grab your family, friends, and your best costume and enjoy an evening filled with sweet treats, a petting zoo, costume contests, giveaways, live DJ tunes, market vendors, a make-and-take craft station, Fauxto booth, temporary tattoos, yard games, face painting, photo opps, and more family-friendly fun. FREE to attend. 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Family-friendly screening of the 1993 Tim Burton classic with music by Danny Elfman, benefiting historic venue preservation.

A hub for supporting farm fresh local food, and small businesses in a vibrant gathering space in Downtown Phoenix. Saturdays only 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

An outdoor walking ghost tour departing from the historic Maricopa County Sheriff's Office plaza. The tour explores the downtown Warehouse District, historic old jails, and landmarks like the Icehouse and Union Station. Teens will love getting to use real paranormal investigation equipment at select stops.

The Arizona State Fair is one of the state's oldest and most beloved autumn traditions, lighting up the heart of Phoenix each fall at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. This month-long celebration brings a massive, high-energy festival atmosphere under this year's theme, "A State of Wonder". Runs now-November 1

Ancient Caves brings science and adventure together as it follows paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s climate in the most unlikely of places: caves. Until recently, scientists had no reliable way to accurately study the climate of Earth’s distant past. Moseley and her team of cave explorers travel the world exploring vast underground worlds in search of stalagmite samples - geologic “fingerprints” - that reveal clues about the planet’s climate history. Their quest leads them to some of the world’s most remote caves, both above and below the water, in France, Iceland, the Bahamas, the U.S. and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where they study how rapidly Earth’s climate can change, and how it has affected human civilization. Together, they go where very few humans will ever go, revealing the incredible lengths scientists will go to study the unknown. Irene P. Flinn Giant Screen Theater. $8 with general admission. Daily 12:15 PM & 2:15: PM

Visit one of the most impressive and unique Major League Baseball facilities in the country -- Chase Field, home of the 2001 World Champion Arizona Diamondbacks and the 2011 MLB All-Star Game. Chase Field has several unique features including dbTV, one of the largest high definition video scoreboards in MLB, a retractable roof to keep fans cool during the summer months, the D-backs Pool in right field and the Coors Light Strike Zone. $12 - $18. Runs daily