Western Europe

Things To See in Western Europe

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London, England

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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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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God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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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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Platform 9 3/4

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

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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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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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Novelty Automation

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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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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The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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Cecil Court

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

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Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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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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Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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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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Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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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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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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Finch and Co Antiques

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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Pelicans of St James's Park

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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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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The Ten Bells Pub

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

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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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The Tower Ravens

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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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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The Ghost of a Flea

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

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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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The Burney Relief

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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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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Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

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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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Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

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Viking Tombstone

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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Richmond Park

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

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Electric Avenue

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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'Potteries and Piggeries' Bottle Kiln

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

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The Four Mother Goddesses

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

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'An Allegory of Man'

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

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Wolf-God of Woodeaton

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

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Mold Gold Cape

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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Handel & Hendrix in London

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

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The Lioness and the Lesser Kudu

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

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