Things to Do in London

by MILLINERYMAVEN

23 Places

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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Leadenhall Market

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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Twinings Tea Shop

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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The Hardy Tree

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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221b Baker Street

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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Goodwin's Court

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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Dennis Severs' House

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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The House of Dreams Museum

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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David Bowie Graffiti Mural

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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Ziggy Stardust Plaque

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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Lock & Co.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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The Museum of Everything (Moving Location)

London's largest outsider art museum.

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Leighton House Museum

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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David Bowie's Childhood Home

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

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The Burlington Arcade Beadles

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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Angela Flanders Perfumer

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

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The Ghost of a Flea

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

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