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Difference Engine #2
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Tyburn Tree Marker
Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.
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Audley Square Spy Lamp Post
This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.
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St. Nicholas Church Memento Mori
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
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Site of Execution Dock
Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
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Lindow Man
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
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Parkland Walk
Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.
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Masonic Lodge of the Andaz Hotel
Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.
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London Necropolis Railway Station
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
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Finch and Co Antiques
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
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Euston's Lost Tunnels
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
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The Embassy of the Republic of Texas
An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.
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The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
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Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
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Barbican Conservatory
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
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Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
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Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
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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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Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
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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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Nunhead Cemetery
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
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Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
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Temple of Mithras
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
