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25 Quirky And Unusual Things To See In London, England

I love London. I lived there back in the 1990s and again 2011 – 2015, and I still go back every few months. The city is rich with layers of history and it has been my muse for a number of novels.

Tourists flock to the Tower or the V&A, but there are plenty of unusual things to see in London once you get off the beaten track. After all, a city doesn’t exist for centuries without attracting the macabre, the eccentric, and the downright strange…

So if you like art, history, or just the darker side of life, here are 25 quirky attractions to visit if you’re visiting the best city in the world!

12 Of The World’s Best Anatomical Museums

Unusual Places

When you book a trip to a new city, thoughts turn to popular attractions or places you might like to see. For most people, anatomical museums don’t usually rank high on the list.

But for a writer, medical museums prove fertile ground in which to find new ideas or story seeds.

If you write crime thrillers, they’re also an excellent way to ensure you’re getting the details right!

As an avid fan of such places myself, I’ve collected together 12 of the world’s best anatomical museums. If you’re into the macabre as I am, then you might enjoy them too!

10 Strange And Mysterious Occult Books Of Magic

Unusual Books and Objects

Authors from M. R. James to H. P. Lovecraft have dabbled with inventing grimoires for their fiction.

J.F.Penn uses a book bound in human skin (a practice known as anthropodermic bibliopegy) in A Thousand Fiendish Angels, and again in Deviance as a skin collector reaps the tattoed bodies of outcast Londoners.

In this article, I’ve collected ten of the most mysterious occult books. Just be careful what you do with them…

7 Unusual Places To Visit In San Francisco

Unusual Places

In many ways, San Francisco is a high-tech city, with Silicon Valley just down the road, Twitter on Market Street and Ubers on every corner.

But it also has a rich religious history and some unusual places to visit if you want to venture further than the Golden Gate Bridge.

Here are some of the places that I found interesting when I visited on a book research trip for my thriller, Valley of Dry Bones.

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