Blackfriars Bridge
Queen Victoria Street, City of London, London, EC4V, United Kingdom
On the morning of the eighteenth of June nineteen eighty-two, a postman walking along the Thames noticed something hanging from scaffolding under this bridge.
Bleeding Heart Yard
Greville Street, Camden, London, EC1N, United Kingdom
You'll find this cobbled courtyard tucked away off Greville Street in Clerkenwell, and the name alone should stop you in your tracks.
Crossbones Graveyard
Redcross Way, Southwark, London, SE1 1TA, United Kingdom
This narrow Southwark side street sits on top of an estimated fifteen thousand bodies.
Dead Man's Hole (Tower Bridge)
Newham, London, E13, United Kingdom
Walk along the north side of Tower Bridge, toward the Tower of London end, and look down at the river's edge.
Execution Dock
80 Wapping High St, Tower Hamlets, London, E1W 2NE, United Kingdom
For four hundred years, this stretch of Thames waterfront was where London killed its pirates.
Highgate Cemetery (West)
Swain's Lane, Camden, London, N6, United Kingdom
This place was built because London was literally drowning in its own dead.
Marble Arch and the Tyburn Gallows
1–3 Marble Arch, City of Westminster, London, W1H, United Kingdom
Every time you walk down Oxford Street toward Marble Arch, you're retracing the final journey of fifty thousand condemned prisoners.
Old Operating Theatre Museum
9A St Thomas St, Southwark, London, SE1 9RY, United Kingdom
High up in the attic of a church, accessible only by a narrow spiral staircase, is Europe's oldest surviving operating theatre.
Postman's Park and the Watts Memorial
King Edward Street, City of London, London, EC1A, United Kingdom
Tucked behind St Paul's Cathedral, through a gate most people never notice, is a small park with a wooden shelter running along one wall.
The Charterhouse
Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AN
You're standing on top of twenty thousand bodies.
The John Snow Pump
Broadwick Street, City of Westminster, London, W1F, United Kingdom
You're standing at the spot where modern epidemiology was born.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London
Fish Street Hill, London EC3R 8AH
You're looking at one of the cleverest structures in London, and almost nobody knows the half of it.
Tower of London
Tower of London, London EC3N 4AB
So here's the thing about the ravens.
Westminster Abbey
20 Deans Yard, London SW1P 3PA
This place has hosted every English and British coronation since William the Conqueror in ten sixty-six.
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