British Museum
Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum is the world's largest museum of stolen goods, depending on who you ask.
Cutty Sark
King William Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9HT
The Cutty Sark is the last surviving tea clipper — the Formula One cars of the Victorian shipping world — and she's been lifted out of the water and suspended in a glass case so you can walk underneath her copper-clad hull and appreciate the engineering that made her the fastest ship in the world.
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
The Imperial War Museum sits in what used to be the Bethlem Royal Hospital — better known as 'Bedlam,' the world's most infamous asylum.
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom
Unlike nearly every other great European museum, the National Gallery wasn't built on a nationalised royal collection.
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
The building itself is a specimen.
Science Museum
Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD, United Kingdom
The Science Museum began as leftovers.
Tate Modern
Bankside, Southwark, London, SE1, United Kingdom
This building used to burn oil to power London.
V&A Museum
Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
The V&A began life in 1852 as the "Museum of Manufactures" — a name so dull it practically dared people not to visit.
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