© Simon Montgomery
The Plague Pits of London
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...
Joseph Merrick, Elephant Man, London Hospital Museum
On the anniversary of his death, Travel Darkly went to explore the story of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, and see a replica of his skeleton at the Royal London Hospital Museum and Archives...
James Thompson, horse-stealer - chained to the floor and a spike iron collar placed around his neck to prevent him trying to escape AGAIN.
Ely Museum and Ely Bishop’s Gaol, Ely, England
Ely Museum is situated in what was once the old Bishop's Gaol where prisoners were chained to the floor to stop them escaping. There's also a dead Roman soldier by the door. Travel Darkly went to take a look at this charming museum in Ely...
Sites of the Great Fire of London, 1666
A small fire which started in a bakery in Pudding Lane went on to destroy most of the City of London in 1666. Travel Darkly visits the sites associated with the worst fire in recorded history...
Cromwell's Deathbed © Sophie Collard
Oliver Cromwell’s House, Ely, England
Oliver Cromwell's family lived at what is now Oliver Cromwell's House before and during the English Civil War. As well as having excellent displays relating to the history of the period, it is supposedly haunted. Travel Darkly went to investigate...
Cromwell's head before it was buried at the chapel in Sidney Sussex College, with thanks to the college
Oliver Cromwell and Charles I London Execution Sites
Charles I was executed outside Banqueting House in London on 30th January 1649 after years of Civil War. Cromwell, on the orders of Charles II, was posthumously executed at Tyburn on the anniversary in 1661. We went to take a look at the execution locations in London and the place Cromwell's head is buried in Cambridge...
© Paul Koudounaris
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...
© Simon Montgomery
Jack the Ripper Tour, London
Travel Darkly joins one of the Jack the Ripper tours around the East End of London, where five women were murdered during the 'Autumn of Terror' by a serial killer who has never been identified...
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.