London, England
Barbican Conservatory
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Bunhill Fields
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
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London Underground Labyrinths
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
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The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
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Peace Garden at Tavistock Square
A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
London, England
Hoa Hakananai'a
The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.
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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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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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Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
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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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Novelty Automation
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
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Old Shoreditch Station
Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.
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The Navigators
Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
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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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I Goat
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
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Speakers' Corner
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
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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 Theatre
Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.
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Captain Bligh's Grave
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
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The Imperial War Museum London
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
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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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Pelicans of St James's Park
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
