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23 Places

London, England

The Mail Rail

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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London, England

Highgate Cemetery

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

London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

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

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London, England

The Hardy Tree

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

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London, England

The Churchill War Rooms

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

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London, England

Temple Church

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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London, England

Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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London, England

The Old Curiosity Shop

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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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.

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London, England

London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House

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

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Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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London, England

Ziggy Stardust Plaque

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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London, England

St Olave Hart Street

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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London, England

Peter Pan Statue

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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London, England

Museum of the Home

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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London, England

Houseboats of Regents Canal

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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London, England

Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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London, England

George Michael Memorial

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

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London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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London, England

Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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London, England

Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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Dennis Severs' House

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

London, England

Urine Deflectors of Fleet Street

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

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