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Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
Places Madeleine Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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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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Broad Street Cholera Pump
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
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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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Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
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Village Underground
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
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Finch and Co Antiques
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
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David Bowie Graffiti Mural
An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.
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Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
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The Imperial War Museum London
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
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Algerian Coffee Stores
Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.
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London Wall
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
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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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The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
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Chelsea Physic Garden
London's old-school healing garden.
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Gordon Museum of Pathology
One of the world's largest collections of pathological 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 Mayflower Pub
The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
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Earl's Court Police Box
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
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The Wildgoose Memorial Library
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
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Ruins of the Crystal Palace
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
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Euston's Lost Tunnels
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
