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...
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 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...
The Capuchin Catacombs Palermo, Sicily, Italy
The catacombs in Palermo, Italy, are among the creepiest we've seen and visitors must beware; what's inside really isn't suitable for children. They house the bodies of preserved monks and wealthy Sicilians from a couple of centuries past, wearing the clothes they wished to be buried in...
The Paris Catacombs, Paris
The remains of more than six million deceased Parisians lie beneath the city in what was once a quarry. Bones from cemeteries and charnel houses that had run out of space were reburied in the catacombs between 1786 and 1860.