City of London Cemetery & Crematorium © Simon Montgomery
City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London
Travel Darkly visits London's biggest cemetery, in the north east of the city, where two of Jack the Ripper's victims are buried...
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of November 5th 1605
Born in York, Fawkes was one of thirteen Catholics who conspired to blow up King James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and after which were hanged at Westminster. Here's how to visit Fawkes-related places...
Arnos Vale Cemetery © Katherine Conlon
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England
This beautiful and tranquil cemetery in Bristol tells, among many others, the stories of medical discoveries and defeats. The graves there include those who succumbed to the cholera epidemic of 1849, as well as others who helped to prevent the deadly disease taking hold again...
Brains in jars © UCL, GMZ and Matt Clayton
The Grant Museum of Zoology, University Street, London
University College London's Grant Museum is near the main university building (where Jeremy Bentham's Auto Icon is displayed). The museum has jars of lizards, snakes and moles as well as a cloned domestic cat. Travel Darkly took a look inside...
Llandoger Trow © Bristol Record Office
Bristol’s Haunted Pubs
Limping boys, Elizabethan girls and long-haired slaves are just some of the ghosts thought to be hanging around Bristol's oldest pubs. Travel Darkly investigates...
The execution poster of Sarah Thomas, 1849 © Bristol Record Office
New Gaol, Bristol, England
Huge crowds once gathered outside the gatehouse of Bristol's prison to see criminals hanged for their crimes. Travel Darkly visits what's left of the jail, located just behind Bristol harbourside...
Ashton Court Mansion © Katherine Conlon
Ashton Court, Bristol, England
Headless horsemen, ghostly grey ladies and phantom hounds are all said to haunt the centuries-old Ashton Court in Bristol, so spooky the electricians wouldn't work there alone...
Oscar Wilde's Tomb up close. © Sophie Collard
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père Lachaise)
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père) is a large city of the dead in Paris. Many famous French, English and American people are buried here, including Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde. We went and took some photographs...
Lancaster Castle and the Pendle Witches
In August 1612 eleven people were sentenced at Lancaster castle to 'hang until they be dead.' They had been accused and found guilty of witchcraft. Travel Darkly went on the trail of the Pendle Witches visiting Pendle Hill, the Pendle Heritage Centre and Lancaster Castle...