Secrets of the City of London | Mysteries of the World

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London, Europe's largest and busiest metropolis, is visited by 28 million tourists every year. They come for the history, culture and entertainment, but behind the glamor of the bright lights lies a hidden, sinister city that most travelers never get to see. This is the Hidden City of London.

London is a city with a rich history, but you can't see it all from a double-decker bus. In this program we explore a secret underground world. We hunt for the ghosts of past centuries and solve the most famous English mystery - Jack the Ripper.

In 1888, Jack the Ripper was the most feared name in London. The Ripper preyed on East End prostitutes and brutally murdered five women in just ten weeks, but to this day his true identity remains a mystery. In Victorian England, London's East End was a bleak network of narrow cobbled streets shrouded in thick smog, where life was hard.

Every year on November 5, hundreds of bonfires burn across the city as millions of people celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. Guy Fawkes was a seventeenth-century terrorist caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament with two tons of gunpowder. Fawkes was imprisoned in one of the most cruel and terrifying places - the Tower of London.

The West End is the Broadway of Europe. This is a theater area with more than 40 theaters in one square mile. The Theater Royal on Drury Lane is hundreds of years old and seats 2,500 spectators, both living and dead. Mark Fox has worked at the theater since 1992 and claims to know of at least three ghosts haunting the building and has a possible explanation for one of them.

In search of London's darkest secrets, we sail up the Thames to one of England's most magnificent palaces. Hampton Court represents 500 years of royal history, and with it, countless ghosts.

Westminster, in the heart of London, is Britain's political center and home to vital national security issues, but these buildings were not built to withstand the lightning attacks of World War II. Instead, Winston Churchill's war cabinet held its meetings in a top secret location underground. Churchill's war rooms, now a museum, remain as they were when they were abandoned in 1945.