London, England

31 Places

London, England

West Norwood Cemetery

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Clink Prison Museum

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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London Wall

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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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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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 Monty Python Foot

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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Abney Park Cemetery

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

Annetta Black

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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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London's Lilliputian Police Station

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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The Ten Bells Pub

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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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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The Hardy Tree

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

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The Morpeth Arms

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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The Star Tavern

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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Hidden Cells of Newgate Prison

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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Paddington Bear Statue

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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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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Sir Ernest Shackleton's Crow's Nest

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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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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World's Largest Potted Plant

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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Admiral's House

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

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