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V&A Museum of Childhood
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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'The Naked Ladies'
No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.
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West Norwood Cemetery
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries
This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.
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St. Nicholas Church Memento Mori
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
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St Bride's Church & Charnel House
This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.
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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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Abney Park Cemetery
A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.
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Brompton Cemetery
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
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Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
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Darwin Centre Spirit Collection
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
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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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The Wildgoose Memorial Library
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
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Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
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Gordon Museum of Pathology
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
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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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Wellcome Collection & Library
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
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Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
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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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Stables Market
Catacombs turned marketplace.
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Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
