From an ancient underground temple at London Mithraeum to the poignant Crossbones Graveyard, these eight offbeat sites will take you to parts of London you likely never know existed.
London is one of the most touristed cities on the planet: before the pandemic, it welcomed more than 21 million international visitors a year, plus many others from across the UK. The quintessential sights – from the, to name just a few – are immediately familiar to people around the world, even those who have never set foot in the city.
The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were the world's first attempt to model extinct animals at life size were the first of their kind in the world. Created in the 1850s, these life-sized replicas quickly became a major attraction and were credited with sparking a bout of"dinomania" amongst the British public.South Londoner Shafik Meghji is an award-winning journalist and author who enjoys exploring the capital's unexpected sites and stories.
The dinosaurs are not the only unexpected creatures to be found in the park, which was created in the 1850s to house the relocated Crystal Palace, an extravagant glass-and-iron structure that originally hosted the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. The vast building was destroyed in a fire in 1936, but six terracotta-red sphinxes that once guarded its terraces survived and have recently been restored.was a vital, if rarely seen, cog in London's communication network.
There's also an aquarium, butterfly house and"animal walk" with alpacas, rabbits and sheep, while the surrounding gardens feature rare and endangered flowering plants from the North America prairies and South African grasslands. You can even find"living fossils" – plant species that have survived for millennia. Most of the Horniman is free to enter, but you have to pay visit the aquarium, butterfly house and some temporary exhibitions.
Tight and claustrophobic, the basement is lined with cabinets filled with objects that are by turns gruesome, macabre, baffling and bizarre. Many of them also turn the stomach of all but the hardiest visitor: a wax model of a scabies mite, a botfly larvae inside a horse's stomach preserved in a jar, a one-handed toddler mannequin, long locks of human hair. They sit alongside playful frivolities such as"unicorn's tail" and a"magic teacup".
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