WEIRD LONDON TRAVEL

London has spent two thousand years collecting strange objects, stranger stories, and an impressive number of dead people beneath perfectly respectable buildings.

WEIRD LONDON TRAVEL is a funny, fascinating journey through the British capital’s most unusual attractions, hidden histories, macabre museums, royal oddities, and wonderfully peculiar corners. This is not a dry guidebook filled with dates and sensible walking shoes. It is London with the curtains pulled back—and possibly something scratching behind them.

Follow a route through Roman ruins, plague pits, haunted pubs, medieval prisons, secret railway stations, ancient cemeteries, peculiar museums, and monuments that Londoners pass every day without realizing how strange they are. Meet the ravens guarding the Tower of London, visit the Crown Jewels before the queue becomes a national emergency, climb into an operating theatre from the days before anesthesia, and discover why a wooden cat may be required when thirteen people dine at the Savoy.

Along the way, you will encounter:

The mysterious London Stone and the tiny noses hidden around Soho

The Tower of London, its ravens, armor, Crown Jewels, and surprisingly good cafeteria

Postman’s Park and its moving memorial to ordinary heroes

The Old Operating Theatre, Crossbones Graveyard, and the infamous Clink Prison

Abandoned Underground stations, Mail Rail, and a railway built for the dead

Highgate Cemetery, Gothic legends, haunted pubs, Roman walls, and London’s strangest museums

Practical advice for using the Tube, avoiding scams, planning walking routes, protecting your feet, and surviving a city that considers a short stroll to be six miles

Whether this is your first trip to London or your tenth, WEIRD LONDON TRAVEL will help you see the city differently. Come for the palaces, bridges, and famous landmarks. Stay for the ghosts, skeletons, plague pumps, false houses, buried geniuses, and foxes who appear to understand public transportation better than you do.

London remains unfinished, overcrowded, slightly haunted, and impossible not to like.

Pack comfortable shoes. The weird side of London is waiting.