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The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A student driver's nightmare.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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