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London, England

The Wallace Collection Armory

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.
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London, England

Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.
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London, England

The Charterhouse Black Death Skeleton

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.
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London, England

Ragged School Museum

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.
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London, England

36 Blythe Road

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.
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London, England

Foundling Museum

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.
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London, England

Down Street Underground Station

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.
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London, England

St. Nicholas Church Memento Mori

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
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London, England

Bunhill Fields

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
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London, England

West Norwood Cemetery

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
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London, England

Battersea Power Station

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

Hidden Cells of Newgate Prison

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.
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London, England

Abney Park Cemetery

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.
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London, England

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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London, England

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
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London, England

Brompton Cemetery

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
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London, England

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
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

Ruined Victorian Folly

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

The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
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London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
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London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
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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

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

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