London trip

46 Places

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Ruined Victorian Folly

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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Highgate Cemetery

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

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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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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 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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Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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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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Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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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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Temple Church

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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The Churchill War Rooms

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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Nunhead Cemetery

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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Brompton Cemetery

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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Abney Park Cemetery

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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Royal London Hospital Museum

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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West Norwood Cemetery

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

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St Bride's Church & Charnel House

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

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Chained Library at Chelsea Old Church

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

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Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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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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Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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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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Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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Greenwich Foot Tunnel

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

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Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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Freddie Mercury's Former Home and Studio

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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London Necropolis Railway Station

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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The London Stone

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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St Olave Hart Street

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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Earl's Court Police Box

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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Crossness Pumping Station

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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Bunhill Fields

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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Love Locks of East London

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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William Blake's Home

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

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Two Princes Staircase

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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Traitors' Gate

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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Canterbury, England

The Great Cloister and Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

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Beaney House of Art and Knowledge

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

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Tomb of the Black Prince

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

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