London interesting places

14 Places

London, England

Audley Square Spy Lamp Post

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

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London, England

Whitefriars Crypt

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

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36 Blythe Road

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

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London, England

Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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London, England

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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London, England

Cecil Court

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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London, England

Carting Lane Sewer Lamp

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

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London, England

The King's Cross Ice Well

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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London, England

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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London, England

Seven Noses of Soho

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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London, England

London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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London, England

Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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London, England

Kyoto Garden

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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London, England

Isokon Flats

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

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