2019 London Trip

32 Places

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Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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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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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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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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God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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The Sherlock Holmes Museum

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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The Churchill War Rooms

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

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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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Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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Growing Underground

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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The Embassy of the Republic of Texas

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

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

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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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Cecil Court

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

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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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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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Freud Museum London

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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Allies Sculpture

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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The Theatre

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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The Mayflower Pub

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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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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Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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Queen Mary's Garden

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

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Boadicea and Her Daughters

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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One Tree Hill

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

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Rubens Ceiling at the Banqueting House

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

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British Library Treasures Gallery

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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'A Conversation With Oscar Wilde'

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

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Crossbones Graveyard

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

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Magic Circle Museum

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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Banksy's 'Designated Graffiti Area'

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.