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Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, UK
A two-headed pig, dried cats (and a rat) and wax intestines, we check out the highlights of the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall...
Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose California is the work of a woman haunted by the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. We went to investigate...
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...
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...
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...
Top 10 Dark Tourism Destinations in London
London: one of the most historic cities on the planet, with a grisly past to match. Travel Darkly explores ten of the best dark destinations in the UK's capital...
Private John Parr was the first to die in WWI, aged just seventeen. Photo © Sophie Collard
Private J Parr, Aged 17, Buried Mons, Belgium
In a quiet rural cemetery on the outskirts of Mons in Belgium lies the body of Private John Parr, who at just seventeen years old became the first British casualty of the WWI. Travel Darkly went to pay their respects...
Looking out to IWM's exterior from the rather balmy top floor. © Sophie Collard
New First World War Galleries IWM London
The new First World War Galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London open 19th July 2014, with the reopening of Imperial War Museum itself. We interviewed James Taylor, the lead curator, about bringing this ambitious project to life as we walked around...
Millbank Prison, PoMs and the Morpeth Arms, London
Millbank Prison, which once overlooked the Thames, housed convicts destined for Australia. The building was demolished to make way for Tate Britain but some cells remain beneath the Morpeth Arms. Travel Darkly went to investigate...