Fright Experience sights in Europe

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   London Bridge Experience & London Tombs

   • London, England
   • Sights › Fright experience

   Winner of the ‘Screamie’ award (a prize for scary and haunted attractions in the UK) three years on the trot, this attraction marries history with hysteria. Stuffed away 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$2.50 in 1967 for the privilege of transporting the dismantled bridge to Arizona. It’s essentially for kids, so the roll call includes ‘the Keeper of the Heads’, who preserved (mummified) the severed heads…

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   London Dungeon

   • London, England
   • Sights › Fright experience

   Older kids tend to love the London Dungeon, as the terrifying queues during school holidays and weekends test­ify. It's all spooky music, ghostly boat rides, macabre hangman's drop-rides, fake blood and actors dressed up as torturers and gory criminals (including Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd). Beware the interactive bits.

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