England, United Kingdom.

429 Places

London, England

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, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

London, England

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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London, England

God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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London, England

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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London, England

Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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London, England

Banksy's 'Designated Graffiti Area'

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

London, England

Novelty Automation

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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London, England

The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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London, England

The Old Curiosity Shop

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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London, England

Traffic Light Tree

A student driver's nightmare.

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London, England

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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London, England

Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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London, England

Kyoto Garden

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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London, England

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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London, England

Nunhead Cemetery

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

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London, England

Temple Church

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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London, England

Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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London, England

Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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London, England

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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London, England

The Clink Prison Museum

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

London, England

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, England

Gordon Museum of Pathology

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

London, England

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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London, England

Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

London, England

The House of Dreams Museum

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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London, England

Barbican Conservatory

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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London, England

Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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London, England

Ruins of the Crystal Palace

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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London, England

The Wildgoose Memorial Library

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

London, England

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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London, England

Darwin Centre Spirit Collection

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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London, England

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

London, England

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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London, England

Brompton Cemetery

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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London, England

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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London, England

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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London, England

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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London, England

Museum of Brands

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

London, England

Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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London, England

Hampstead Pergola

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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London, England

Lindow Man

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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London, England

Crystal Palace Subway

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

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London, England

Camera Museum

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

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