London, England
Quantum Cloud
Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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The Fortnum & Mason Clock
At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.
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Peace Garden at Tavistock Square
A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
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Michael Faraday Memorial
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
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British Dental Museum
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
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Church of Notre Dame de France
Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.
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Millennium Bridge Tiny Chewing Gum Art
The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.
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Postman's Park: Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Vectors of Disease Frieze
The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.
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The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
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'A Conversation With Oscar Wilde'
An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.
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Animals in War Memorial
A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.
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Get Stuffed
Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
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Hungerford Footbridge Skateboard Graveyard
The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.
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Coade Stone Caryatids
A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.
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Mary Anning's Plesiosaur
This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.
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Richmond Park
This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.
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York Water Gate
These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.
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The Soho Square Hut
The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.
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Monument to the Great Fire of London
The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
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Foundling Museum
Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's Crow's Nest
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.
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London's Stretcher Railings
The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.
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Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
