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20/12/2019

🎄🐪🎄**CHRISTMAS SPECIAL**🎄⭐️🎄

Were you once scared of finding a lump of coal in your stocking on Christmas morning?

Kids in many Alpine countries have bigger things to worry about in Krampus - the terrifying Christmas goat demon who might eat you or take you to hell if you've been bad this year.

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Krampus, St. Nick's terrifying companion, comes out on December 5th to punish and steal naughty children. Catch a Krampusnacht parade in Austria or Germany

05/11/2019

🔥 It's Bonfire Night in the UK 💥

What's the pyromania all about? Read below and find out 👇

Guy Fawkes, born in York, was one of 13 Catholics who conspired to blow up James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and was subsequently hanged at Westminster.

08/09/2019

**NEW POST** **QUICK READ**

Ever noticed these small plaques in the street during a city break in Europe?

They commemorate victims of the Holocaust, placed outside the last place people lived or worked before they were deported and murdered by the N***s.

Stolpersteine are memorials for Holocaust victims across Europe. You can find many on the streets of Amsterdam, especially in the Jewish Quarter.

31/10/2018

Bloedstraat (Blood Street) in Amsterdam’s red light district - said to be one of the most haunted streets in the city, where the blood of executed prisoners drained from Nieuwmarkt into the canal.

31/10/2018

👻🧛‍♂️HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM TRAVEL DARKLY!🧟‍♂️🎃

We're all witchy today with our *NEW POST* about the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, UK.

🐖Halloween bonus: a lucky two-headed pig. 🐖

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The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle – UK witchcraft history, witchcraft meaning and information about who practised witchcraft and witches today

22/08/2018

‘Here lived Isaak Stopper born 1899. Arrested Aug. 1943, deported 1943 from Westerbork. Murdered 31-3-1944, Auschwitz’. There are 400 of these memorial plaques in Amsterdam outside the former homes of Holocaust victims.

17/08/2018

☢️ Long overdue *NEW POST* on Travel Darkly! ☢️

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the A-Bomb Dome dedicated to the events of the 6th August 1945.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is dedicated to the events of the 6th August 1945, and shows the devastating effects of nuclear war on normal people.

03/11/2017

Last night was the grand opening of the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic in London at The Last Tuesday Society & The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in Bethnal Green. Fans of Pitt Rivers Museum and of interesting objects in general will enjoy...

31/10/2017

NEW post on the blog today. The Wi******er Mystery House, San Jose, California. Because it wouldn't be without a haunted house...

The Wi******er Mystery House, soon to be featured in the movie Wi******er starring Helen Mirren, is purportedly one of the most haunted houses in the world

31/10/2017

Halloween in Tokyo right now....

21/10/2017

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington stars alongside Lord of the Rings star Liv Tyler in Gunpowder tonight on BBC One. Here's our Guy Fawkes post...

Guy Fawkes, born in York, was one of 13 Catholics who conspired to blow up James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and was subsequently hanged at Westminster.

05/10/2017

Exciting news! Jeremy Bentham's head is on display at UCL Institute of Education's Octagon Gallery until 28th February 2018.

12/05/2017

We love a map – tube maps, interactive maps, Harry Potter maps – we're into all of them. But this may just be the creepiest map we've ever co

24/02/2017

*NEW POST!* This medieval crime museum in Germany has a great collection of shame masks, tiny models of people being punished, and the infamous iron maiden of Nuremberg. Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum

Visit the Medieval Crime Museum in the fairytale German town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber for torture devices, masks of shame and the infamous iron maiden.

20/02/2017

The drunkard's cloak. If you were caught after a few too many drinks you might have been put in one of these to wander the streets in.

More from the Medieval Crime Museum in Germany coming soon!

26/01/2017

http://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/japanese-phone-booth-for-calling-dead-relatives

One coastal Japanese town is dealing with its grief in a unique way—a white telephone booth with glass panels.

19/10/2016

11/09/2016

**NEW POST** See the streets which the infamous Kray twins ruled in the 1960s with our walking tour around East London

See where then infamous gangster Kray twins grew up, lived and were buried with Travel Darkly's East London walking tour.

03/09/2016

This weekend marks 350 years since the Great Fire of London! Read all about it here

The Great Fire of London destroyed vast swathes of the city as it burned for 5 days in 1666. Visit the sites associated with it with help from this article.

16/05/2016

The skeleton of murderer William Burke is to go on show online for the first time as part of a virtual museum tour.

02/05/2016

NEW POST on Travel Darkly! The seventeenth-century underground labyrinth of The Real Mary King's Close in Edinburgh - once the site of plague and murder but now hidden from the world. The Real Mary King's Close

The Real Mary King's Close is a 17th-century labyrinth under the streets of Edinburgh, offering tales of plague, murder and a ghost called Annie.

24/04/2016

The story of Bobby the dog. When Bobby's owner died he spent the rest of his life sat on his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard cemetery in Edinburgh.

18/03/2016

14/02/2016

As we all know, nothing says Valentine's Day like a good torture museum. Read our NEW POST about thumb screws, stretching racks and more at the torture museum in Gravensteen Castle, Ghent. Gravensteen

The medieval Gravensteen Castle was once used as a prison, where the accused were tortured to confess. Visit the torture museum within the castle walls.

05/02/2016

NEW on Travel Darkly today - the first of two posts from lovely Ghent. If you ever get the chance to visit the city we highly recommend the thoughtful Museum Dr. Guislain, set in Belgium's first psychiatric hospital. Museum Dr. Guislain

Next week: the torture museum in Gravensteen castle.

Set in Belgium's oldest psychiatric hospital, the Museum Dr. Guislain travels through the history of mental illness and challenges our relation to it.

31/12/2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Love Travel Darkly x

05/11/2015

It's Bonfire Night, and here's our post all about Guy Fawkes. Enjoy the fireworks!

Guy Fawkes, born in York, was one of 13 Catholics who conspired to blow up James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and was subsequently hanged at Westminster.

30/10/2015

DRACULA SPECIAL to get you in the mood for tomorrow... We visit the graveyard of St. John-at-Hampstead, London, which inspired some of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Here the vampire Lucy Westenra rises from her tomb to feed on nearby children before meeting a sticky end...

St. John-at-Hampstead's graveyard is thought to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, where vampire Lucy rises from her grave at night and feeds on children.

16/10/2015

NEW POST this Friday afternoon. If you ever find yourself with half an hour to spare in the City of London we recommend you visit the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman's Park.

Here there are 54 plaques dedicated to people who died trying to save other people's lives in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A touching turn-of-the-century memorial dedicated to people who died trying to save others' lives, set in Postman's Park, City of London.