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Bunhill Fields
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Peter Pan Statue
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
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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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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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The London Stone
This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.
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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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Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
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Michael Faraday Memorial
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
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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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Postman's Park: Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
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William Wallace Memorial
A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."
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The Golden Boy at Pye Corner
A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.
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The First Public Drinking Fountain
Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.
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The Cockpit
A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.
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Wellcome Collection & Library
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
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Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
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Monument to Hodge the Cat
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital
Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.
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Temple Church
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
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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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Pelicans of St James's Park
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
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Seven Noses of Soho
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
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London's Lilliputian Police Station
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
