London Bridge Experience & London Tombs

London’s latest attraction marrying history with hysteria – ‘edutainment’ as it’s (unfortunately) becoming known in these parts – is far and away its scariest. Located in the vaults beneath so-called New London Bridge (dating back to 1831), the history part takes you on a whistle-stop tour of London’s most famous span – from the Romans to the Vikings, from Peter de Colechurch’s ‘Old London Bridge’ (1209) with all the shops, to the American Robert McCulloch, who paid US$2.5 in 1967 for the privilege of transporting the dismantled bridge to Arizona. This is essentially a kids’ show so there’s much focus on such personalities as ‘the Keeper of the Heads’ whose job it was to preserve (mummified) the severed heads of the executed that were displayed on the bridge. At the end of this rather painless history lesson you descend into a series of tombs and plague pits dating as far back as the 14th century, which play on every fear known to man, woman and German Shepherd – darkness, rodents (animatronics), claustrophobia (you have to wiggle your way through an inflated tunnel) and shock (zombies – actors – who jump out in front, beside and behind you, scaring the bejesus out of you every time). We are still shaking. Save up to 50% by buying online.