London, England
Museum of the Home
Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Columbia Road Shops and Flower Market
The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.
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Broad Street Cholera Pump
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
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Chelsea Physic Garden
London's old-school healing garden.
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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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Temple Church
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
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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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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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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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Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
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Leadenhall Market
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
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'Merry-Go-Round' Painting
A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.
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Remains of the Old London Bridge
Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.
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Chi-Chi the Giant Panda
The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.
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'The Ambassadors'
A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.
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Memorial to the Women of World War II
The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.
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The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
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Monument to the Great Fire of London
The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
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Hungerford Footbridge Skateboard Graveyard
The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.
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Dick Whittington’s Cat
A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.
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Replica of the Golden Hinde
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
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Roman Wharf Timber
The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.
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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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Trafalgar Square Imperial Measurements
These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.
