Weird/Interesting/Creepy stuff to do in London

[chris-red]

I'm trying to sort out something for my missus' birthday,

It'll be June 26th, as a side annoyance I put all the MOTOGPs in my calendar I saw there was one on her Bday I was slightly irritated by it, then I realised it was Assen, Result! Assen is always on Saturday.

[Pjay]

She might like The London Dungeon, but I thought it was shit.
I have little interest in the macabre though.
https://www.thedungeons.com/london/en

[Minty]

London Bridge Experience (or whatever it is called now)?
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[Evil Hans]

She should love either of these.

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology
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[chris-red]

[Lord Percy]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Sir John Soane's house in Grays Inn has a great collection of archaeological artifacts and stuff

https://www.soane.org

V&A? It also has collections.

You could take her up the Oxo Tower for lunch?
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[Silver_Fox]

[notbike]

Visit Lewisham. It's a nice zoo. You should take popcorn and stab-proof vests.

[M.C]

Jack the ripper museum? Actually maybe not

Natural history museum followed by McDonald's.. you're trying to do this as cheaply as possible right?

[chris-red]

[ScaredyCat]

[6r4h4m]

If you're feeling a bit Tomb Raider, maybe if the Andaz Hotel doesn't have an event on they might be persuaded to let you check out their Masonic temple in exchange for the purchase of a couple of expensive cocktails? It's on my list of things to get around to seeing in town.

The guide book that I've barely scratched the surface of in 6 years of living in the Smoke says that near there, round the back of the Gherkin, there's a plaque commemorating a teenage girl whose grave had to be disturbed when it was built. She got a full Roman reburial once the job was done. Apparently, finding a grave from 350AD in London is a big deal. Not actually on my own list, but if you're round that way then maybe it's of passing interest.

Personally, my stand-by activity for guests from out of town is a whizz down the river on a Thames Clipper. It's not that expensive, you can use your Oyster card (it's part of TFL), they serve booze on board, and the Museum of London smartphone app can tell you what the interesting buildings are that you're going past. Big queues on summer weekends though. Hop off somewhere like Wapping for Lord Percy's suggestion of mudlarking, if tide is low and you fancy getting muddy round Execution Dock.

[angryjonny]

[TCFA]

Highgate Cemetery? Split into "old" (all gnarly and stuff) and "new" (bunch of famous graves)

Second Hunterian / Soane (same square, both free).
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[Silver_Fox]

[nowhere.elysium]

Weird and creepy, you say?
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[chris-red]

[Andy_Pagin]

I used to work near Whitechapel and often 'listened in' on passing Jack The Ripper walking tours. I suspect if you get a good guide on a nice evening that can be quite creepy. Even if most of the ripper's haunts are now just modern streets.

In a different vein the harry Potter tours around LeadenHall were interesting too.
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[orac]

don't know if it can visited but look into the necropolis railway.
yes London had a railway for the dead.
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[duhawkz]

If you're in london don't forget to take her up the oxo tower
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[mentalboy]

Take her to the Wong Kei Chinese restaurant, mebbe not weird but definitely the rudest waiters in the business (according to the latest reviews on the interwebs).

I went there about 30 years ago before it was popular with whitey and, despite the fact it was packed, my father and I were the only two people in there not fluent in Mandarin! The waiters were noticeably rude.

[Tracey Suntan-King]