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The Meeting Place

London, England

The Meeting Place

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

Tunnels of Euston.

London, England

Euston's Lost Tunnels

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

 The statue of James Henry Greathead with a bus passing on one side.

London, England

Statue of James Henry Greathead

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

Horses - Stables Market

London, England

Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Rolling Bridge

London, England

Rolling Bridge

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Paddington Real Time Clock by Maarten Baas

London, England

Paddington Real Time Clock

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

The Paddington Bear statue at Paddington station.

London, England

Paddington Bear Statue

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Longplayer

London, England

Longplayer

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Container City on London's Trinity Buoy Wharf.

London, England

Container City

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Quantum Cloud

London, England

Quantum Cloud

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

The pylon, in front of the Canary Wharf skyline

London, England

'A Bullet From a Shooting Star'

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Museum of London Docklands

London, England

Museum of London Docklands

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Memorial plaques to Tycho and Jim, V&A Museum.

London, England

V&A Dog Memorials

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

The Great Bed of Ware

London, England

The Great Bed of Ware

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Exhale: Bionic Chandelier

London, England

Exhale: Bionic Chandelier

A living lighting fixture.

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.

Clock mechanism.

London, England

The Clockmakers' Museum

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

The Difference Engine #2 at London Science Museum

London, England

Difference Engine #2

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

The Basketmakers Arms

Brighton, England

The Basketmakers Arms

A storied British pub where customers leave messages in the walls.

Fallow deer at Richmond Park.

London, England

Richmond Park

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

The view from King Henry's Mound.

London, England

King Henry's Mound

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens

London, England

Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

The Gate House, one of the remains of Richmond Palace.

London, England

Remains of Richmond Palace

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

The cupola- the telescope is not the original one used to observe the transit

London, England

King’s Observatory

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

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