Haunted London

Diaphanous apparitions, rattling chains, howling winter winds ... the Tower of London has it all (or so the legends say). In the 900 years since it was first constructed, the tower has served as, among other things, a tourist attraction, a prison and a place of execution for some of England's most notorious characters. Henry the VIII's infamous wife Anne Boleyn lost her head here, and rumor has it that a chained Sir Walter Raleigh still prowls the tower grounds. The haunted area includes the house at Seven Tower Green where a priest insists he saw a long-dead Sir Thomas Becket strike a wall with a crucifix and a young girl claims her missing contact lenses fell from the ceiling into her lap. Whether haunted or not — that's for visitors to decide.