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This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.