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London, England

Site of Execution Dock

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
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London, England

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Traveling collection of amazing automata.
London, England

London Underground Labyrinths

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
Monsieur Mictlan Added by Monsieur Mictlan
London, England

Battersea Power Station

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
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London, England

Monument to Hodge the Cat

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
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London, England

'Treatment Rooms' Mosaic House

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.
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London, England

Parkland Walk

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.
Added by clubsterfunk
London, England

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Added by LongNow
London, England

The Lost River Fleet

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

Speakers' Corner

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
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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.
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London, England

Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
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London, England

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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London, England

Masonic Lodge of the Andaz Hotel

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.
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London, England

Village Underground

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
EricGrundhauser Added by EricGrundhauser
London, England

Chelsea Physic Garden

London's old-school healing garden.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
London, England

Earl's Court Police Box

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
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London, England

Paddington Bear Statue

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.
Added by Kavya Ram Mohan
London, England

Euston's Lost Tunnels

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
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London, England

Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

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

Ruined Victorian Folly

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
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London, England

Kyoto Garden

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
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