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Freud Museum London
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
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Broad Street Cholera Pump
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
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Euston's Lost Tunnels
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
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Monument to Hodge the Cat
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
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Word on the Water
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
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Barbican Conservatory
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
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The Cartoon Museum
A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.
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Darwin Centre Spirit Collection
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
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Gordon Museum of Pathology
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
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Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
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Ruins of the Crystal Palace
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
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Hyde Park Pet Cemetery
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
Permanently Closed
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Freddie Mercury's Former Home and Studio
A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.
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Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Permanently Closed
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Growing Underground
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Permanently Closed
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Lullaby Factory
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
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Seven Noses of Soho
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
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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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Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
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Traffic Light Tree
A student driver's nightmare.
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Crossbones Graveyard
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
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The Mail Rail
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
