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Shoreditch Town Hall Facade

London, England

Shoreditch Town Hall

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Chequer Street Wooden Paving

London, England

Chequer Street Wooden Paving

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

Museum of Methodism

London, England

Museum of Methodism

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Bunhill Fields

London, England

Bunhill Fields

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Columbia Road Shops and Flower Market

London, England

Columbia Road Shops and Flower Market

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The Gamble room.

London, England

Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

London, England

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The Difference Engine #2 at London Science Museum

London, England

Difference Engine #2

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The Rocket as preserved in the Science Museum, London

Shildon, England

The ‘Rocket' Locomotive

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Chi-Chi eternally munching a bamboo stalk.

London, England

Chi-Chi the Giant Panda

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Archie in his tank. Creative Commons photo by Steve Sparshott

London, England

Archie the Giant Squid

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Natural History Museum of London

London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Houseboats of Regents Canal

London, England

Houseboats of Regents Canal

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Horses - Stables Market

London, England

Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

It is where canine couple Pongo and Perdita meet for the first time in the Disney classic '101 Dalmatians'.

London, England

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."

A pair of parakeets in a tree, London.

London, England

London's Rose-Ringed Parakeets

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

Peter Pan is the boy who never grows up.

London, England

Peter Pan Statue

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The Lioness and the Lesser Kudu.

London, England

The Lioness and the Lesser Kudu

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

"Half Rabbit."

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

'Half Rabbit'

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

São Bento Railway Station

Porto, Portugal

Sao Bento Station

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Close-up of the McDonalds marquee with the Imperial eagle

Porto, Portugal

McDonald's Imperial

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Livraria Lello

Porto, Portugal

Livraria Lello

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

It's easy to miss the house wedged between these churches.

Porto, Portugal

Carmo and Carmelitas Churches

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

At the entrance to Burlington House stand two K2 telephone boxes.

London, England

K2 Telephone Boxes

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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