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Context! The Natural History Museum in London has its own page on Atlas Obscura and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There’s some odd stuff there – as I mentioned on one of the very posts I did on this here blog – but it’s one of the biggest museums of…
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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! Just visiting a mosque in Britain these days is nothing special as we have loads of them. It’s like just visiting a church. I’ve been to a few in the UK, including London’s Central Mosque and some smaller ones in the Midlands, but most of the mosques in Britain aren’t really tourist attractions in…
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Context! As huge as London is, I think the Crystal Palace dinosaurs are my favourite thing in the whole city. They’re obscure, out the way and basically falling apart these days, but there’s really nothing like them anywhere else in the planet. The dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals) were built in Crystal Palace Park way…
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