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London, England

Difference Engine #2

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
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London, England

The London Library

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.
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London, England

Archie the Giant Squid

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.
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London, England

London Underground Labyrinths

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

Lindow Man

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
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London, England

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

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

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
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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

Euston's Lost Tunnels

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

Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
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London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

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

Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.
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London, England

Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
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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

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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London, England

The London Dungeon

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

Novelty Automation

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
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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

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

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

Cecil Court

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
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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

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
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London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.