London, England
Temple Bar Memorial Dragon
The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.
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Get Stuffed
Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
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Signs of Old Lombard Street
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
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Hackney City Farm
A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.
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Traitors' Gate
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
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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."
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Two Princes Staircase
Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.
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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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V&A Museum of Childhood
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
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Chained Library at Chelsea Old Church
This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.
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Michael Faraday's Laboratory
The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.
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Museum of the Home
Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.
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Houseboats of Regents Canal
A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
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The Theatre
Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.
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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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Bunhill Fields
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
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Battersea Power Station
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
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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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Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
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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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Word on the Water
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
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Lock & Co.
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
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Speakers' Corner
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
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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.
