Dracula and St. John-at-Hampstead's Graveyard, London
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Travel Darkly visits this atmospheric Hampstead graveyard and inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, thought to be the setting where Lucy Westenra rises from her grave at night to feed upon children she finds on nearby Hampstead Heath...
The Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, Postman's Park, London
The brave acts of 19th- and 20th-century people who died whilst attempting to save other people's lives are commemorated at this touching, peaceful memorial in the City of London. We went to find out more about their stories...
St. Bride's Crypt, London
This historic, little-known church is a tranquil of calm off London's Fleet Street. Inside you'll find an altar dedicated to journalists who died in war zones, and a crypt with thousands of human remains, only discovered after the Blitz. Travel Darkly went on a Tuesday afternoon tour...
7 Reenactors in Uniform at the Battle of Waterloo Bicentenary
200 years after the Battle of Waterloo more than 5,000 historical reenactors set up camp around the original battlefield where they then put on a very smokey show. Travel Darkly met seven of them...
Derby's Haunted Pubs
Tales of murder at Room 29 in the Old Bell, an unidentified skull called George and a tour of the tunnels under the Guildhall with Most Haunted's Richard Felix. Here's Travel Darkly's guide to the haunted pubs of Derby...
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has one of the most interesting collections we've seen, from shrunken heads to a Ghanian fantasy coffin, it's not to be missed. Curator Helen took us on a tour...
Café in the Crypt, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Travel Darkly enjoys a cup of tea amid the gravestones of the Café in the Crypt, set in the 18th-century church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square...
Llandaff Cardiff Ghost Walk, Cardiff, Wales
On a dark December's night Travel Darkly went in search of mysterious figures, mythical hags and ghostly voices in the chilly fields of Llandaff in Cardiff...