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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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.