London, England
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19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
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London, England
19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
London, England
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.
London, England
Traveling collection of amazing automata.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
London, England
The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
London, England
A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.
London, England
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.