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Mount Street Gardens
Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Vectors of Disease Frieze
The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.
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The Vincent Street Fireplace
A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.
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Pink Floyd Plaque
This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.
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Audley Square Spy Lamp Post
This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.
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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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Temple Bar Memorial Dragon
The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.
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Shield of Parade
This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.
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Mold Gold Cape
This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.
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The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
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S.O.E. Monument
A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.
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Hoa Hakananai'a
The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.
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Handel & Hendrix in London
The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.
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The Burney Relief
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
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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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William Blake Mosaics
This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.
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Down Street Underground Station
The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.
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London Necropolis Railway Station
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
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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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Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
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Lindow Man
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
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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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Sotheby's Sekhmet
Heralded as the oldest statue in London.
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'The World Turned Upside Down'
Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.
