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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Sweeney Todd: the murderous barber whose victims were made into human pies. Fact or fiction? Travel Darkly tries out Soundmap's audiowalk around London's Fleet Street to find out more...
This unique space, in a church attic, houses one of the oldest operating theatres in Europe, and offers weekly demonstrations of surgery in the 19th century before anaesthetics and antiseptics. Travel Darkly visited to see what a leg operation involved circa 1822...
There are thought to be around 15,000 of London's prostitutes and poor buried at this site in Southwark, London. Travel Darkly went to an evening vigil in remembrance of the city's outcast dead...
During the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665, plague pits were dug across the city to dispose of London's infected dead. Travel Darkly visits some of the sites...