Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials, Amsterdam
These small plaques in the ground of many European cities mark the final place victims of the Holocaust lived before their murder by the Nazis...
Cemeteries and memorials, including catacombs and crypts.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan
We visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Atomic Bomb Dome dedicated to the events of the 6th August 1945 and the aftereffects of nuclear war...
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Dracula and St. John-at-Hampstead’s Graveyard, London
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...
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...
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...
Cross Bones Graveyard, London
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...