Kray Twins East London Walking Tour
Travel Darkly's guide to Ronnie and Reggie Kray's East London, including their primary school, the infamous Blind Beggar pub and where you can find their graves...
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Review: The Crime Museum Uncovered, Museum of London
The Museum of London has worked with the Metropolitan Police to put previously unseen objects from Scotland Yard's grisly Crime Museum on display. Travel Darkly visits to find out more about some of these infamous artefacts and the stories around them...
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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...
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...
The Sweeney Todd Audiowalk, London
Sweeney Todd: the murderous barber whose victims were made into human pies. Fact or fiction? Travel Darkly tries out Soundmap's audiowalk around London's Fleet Street to find out more...
The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London
This unique space, in a church attic, houses one of the oldest operating theatres in Europe, and offers weekly demonstrations of surgery in the 19th century before anaesthetics and antiseptics. Travel Darkly visited to see what a leg operation involved circa 1822...
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...