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The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
Permanently Closed

London, England

The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Buses in the London Transport Museum.

London, England

London Transport Museum

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The coat hook is said to be one of the questions for the London cab driver test known as "The Knowledge."

London, England

Metropolitan Police Coat Hook

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

Cecil Court.

London, England

Cecil Court

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

The quaint and well-preserved Goodwin's Court.

London, England

Goodwin's Court

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Giro's Gravestone

London, England

Giro the Dog's Grave

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

Henry Croft.

London, England

Gravestone of Henry Croft

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

Popeye Village

Mellieħa, Malta

Popeye Village

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The bunker.
Permanently Closed

London, England

Growing Underground

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

Main chamber illuminated for winch meet

Lancaster, England

Gaping Gill

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

The piece of timber.

London, England

Roman Wharf Timber

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Camera Museum.

London, England

Camera Museum

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

Aldgate Pump.

London, England

Aldgate Pump

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Museum of Brands

London, England

Museum of Brands

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

London's smallest police station.

London, England

London's Lilliputian Police Station

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Plaque marking the Texan Embassy

London, England

The Embassy of the Republic of Texas

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The mouth of the River Fleet, entering the River Thames beneath the Blackfriars Bridge, London.

London, England

The Lost River Fleet

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Traffic Light Tree

London, England

Traffic Light Tree

A student driver's nightmare.

The King's Cross Ice Well

London, England

The King's Cross Ice Well

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A Nicobar Tree Shrew in the Grant Museum of Zoology

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.

The Churchill War Rooms

London, England

The Churchill War Rooms

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

Gods Own Junkyard

London, England

God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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