Some of the weirdest places London has to offer!

London is the best known cities in the world, there’s enough touristy memorabilia to fill a museum ten times over, but with London being as big as it is, the touristy parts can become pretty repetitive. We can all goon the London Eye, down the Thames, get on a Double Decker red bus. There’s nothing wrong with that, and that’s part of the classic experience that comes with London. However, for those that like to really venture to weird and wacky parts of London, we have a great list to offer you,. We have some unconventional places that can show you just some of the weirdest and most fascinating that London has to offer!

Starting off with a place that just cannot be replicated, with have the Novelty Automation Museum. Just hidden behind a Bloomsbury shop front is an arcade that really doesn’t think Pacman is all that interesting. Created by a completely mad artist and inventor Tim Hunkin over the space of thirty years, each arcade game has a very interesting story behind it, and completely weird ways of interacting with each one. You can pilot a drone around celebrity homes, play the game of Divorce, and receive a rather dd pat down from a machine called ‘Autofrisk’. If you’re the creative type you can place your favourite piece inside a machine for artistic testing by a strange looking paper-mache man. You can buy tokens, and go round all the machines for about an hour or so, this place is a lot of fun and one of the weirdest places in London! Check the TripAdvisor if you don’t believe us. This place is nowhere near the ordinary of London.

Next we’re going onto this little museum  called ‘The Last Tuesday Society’ It;s a very small museum, otherwise known as ‘Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors’ however it is not lacking at all in the oddities and curiosities it can offer your unprepared eyes. Based in Hackney you can pop down there for only £6 each, you’ll probably be in there for about half an hour, you can expect to see fine art, strange taxidermy, and some of the oddities of natural history and biology. After your brain has handled all it can you can head upstairs on Mare Street to their cocktail bar specialising in Absinthe. They;ve also got a menu of cocktails and a handful of beers and wine so you can drink away the sorrows of everything you just had to experience. If all of that isn’t enough for you they regularly hold workshops on taxidermy, cocktail making. Then they have story times, and lectures all about the museum too. 

Finally heading over to the oldest jail London has, it's the ‘Clink Prison Museum’. Located just off of South Bank this prison has a long history of locking people up, just as you would expect. This prison operated from the 12th to the 18th century, but now you can visit and luckily you’re free to leave whenever you fancy it. However you will have to endure some horror actors talking you through all the gruesome things that happened there. You can enjoy some not so entirely hands experience with all of the torture devices used, and explore the day in the life of a medieval prisoner. Throughout it you can see written history of the place and lots of art across the walls that dated back to the prison. 

So, there is tons of weird and wonderful, and downright strange things to do in London that don’t involved getting on the London eye or wandering round the Natural History Museum. I will say that as these places aren't as popular the opening times can be all over the place so check online before handing down to these places.