London, England
Monument to Hodge the Cat
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Lindow Man
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
Darwin Centre Spirit Collection
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
The Lost River Fleet
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
London, England
Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Cecil Court
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
Platform 9 3/4
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
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London, England
The Hardy Tree
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
Twinings Tea Shop
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
Leadenhall Market
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
London Underground Labyrinths
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
London, England
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries
This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.
London, England
Replica of the Golden Hinde
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
Two Princes Staircase
Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.
London, England
The Navigators
Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
London, England
The Tower Ravens
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
London, England
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.
London, England
221b Baker Street
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
Lviv, Ukraine
Lychakiv Cemetery
Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.
Ottawa, Ontario
'Maman'
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Toronto, Ontario
The Little House
Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Toilet History Museum
A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.
