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The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
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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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Shield of Parade
This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.
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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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Lindow Man
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
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London's Lilliputian Police Station
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
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The Monty Python Foot
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
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Café in the Crypt
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
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Cecil Court
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
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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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Peace Garden at Tavistock Square
A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
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'An Allegory of Man'
This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.
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'Merry-Go-Round' Painting
A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.
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Torso in Metal from Rock Drill
This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.
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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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Novelty Automation
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
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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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Beigel Bake
Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.
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Spitalfields Charnel House
Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.
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V&A Museum of Childhood
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
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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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The Blind Beggar
This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.
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Church of Notre Dame de France
Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.
