Cemeteries and memorials, including catacombs and crypts.

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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...

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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...

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