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London, England

The 'Scribble'

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.
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London, England

The Champion

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."
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London, England

Coade Stone Caryatids

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.
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London, England

The Star Tavern

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.
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London, England

The Mayflower Pub

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
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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

Village Underground

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

Finch and Co Antiques

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
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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

Barbican Conservatory

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
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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

The House of Dreams Museum

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.
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London, England

Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
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London, England

The Morpeth Arms

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
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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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London, England

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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London, England

Growing Underground

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
London, England

Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.
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London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
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London, England

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
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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

Magic Circle Museum

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.
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London, England

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
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London, England

God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
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