Quirky London tourist attractions

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Hey all
I know London very well and usually only visit family there but my 16 yo ds and I have a few days there next week and we want to do some stuff.
We've done all the usual tourist stuff, so looking for some hidden gems?!
DS loves anything geeky. He's obsessed with Japanese culture too. Art is good, museums if they're really engaging... Anything goes really!
Anyone got any good ones?

The Old Operating Theatre
18 Stafford Terrace (closed until mid-September). Fun as you get an in character guide.
Boat trip to Greenwich
Highgate Cemetery (west side)
Train trip in the postal museum (not cheap though)

I can recommend the Museum of Brands!

Do the mound by Marble Arch. It's free at the moment because everyone that paid, complained about how rubbish it is! I went yesterday and it was actually quite a fun experience, but only because people were chatting at the top and generally agreeing that it is, indeed, a waste of money
themarblearchmound.com/

The wellcome museum at Euston is interesting, John soanes museum. Not sure if it's still there but we used to go up to the huge Japanese supermarket complex in n London, mostly groceries but they had anime stuff cutesy stationery etc and a great restaurant

Now I want to go for a West End musical brunch followed by a Life-sized Monopoly game!

London's smallest statue urban-adventurer.net/tiny-london/#:~:text=London's%20Smallest%20Statue%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Two%20Mice%20Statue&text=London's%20smallest%20statue%20is%20located,a%20couple%20of%20inches%20long.

More or less next to the Sky Garden
skygarden.london/

The Automaton Museum is great fun.

Saatchi Gallery
www.saatchigallery.com/

Someone has already suggested Japan House - looks fab - you can have Japanese-style afternoon tea there as well;

www.japanhouselondon.uk/covid-19/
www.japanhouselondon.uk/eat/restaurant/

Dennis Severs is good - but you need to book in advance as they have weird opening times. But that's an interesting area (Brick Lane/Spitalifields) that would likely appeal to a 16 year old.

Sky Garden is great for a free fantastic view, also prebook

For general quirky background information about London, I like Jago Hazzard's YouTube videos. They have a definite bias to the Underground system, but he manages to make even that interesting for total non-train nerds like me.

Will defo do the mound!
He loves the saatchi gallery, been loads of times.
Did sky garden last year, loved that !
We've been to Spitalfields loads of times and brick lane but he's never had a famous brick lane bagel so that's on the list too!

We like trains so will look up that YouTuber!

Following, as I’m doing similar

The Old Operating Theatre (by London Bridge)
The Hunterian Museum (at Royal College of Surgeons)

I’ve walked past here before it opened and it looks great for lunch if he also likes Japanese noodles
www.mylondon.news/whats-on/food-drink-news/largest-ever-japanese-noodle-restaurant-20527544.amp

Marugame is stop number one when we get into Liverpool St. He's already talking about getting a job there when he leaves home

Another vote for Dennis Servers museum
Hunterian museum is fascinating and the old operating theatre
Get a river bus over to Greenwich. Lovely place to explore
Museum of childhood at Bethnel Green.
Pollocks Toy Museum
Emirates cable car.

@Blankspace4

I can recommend the Museum of Brands!

I was pleasantly surprised by this

Freud museum

The Van Gogh experience in Kensington Gardens looks good.

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Has anyone been to the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in E8? We're going to London soon and that's potentially on our list of we get time. Also the Orbit slide, Clink Prison Museum and hopefully Highgate Cemetary.

Ryoji Ikeda exhibition (Japanese visual and sound artist)
www.180thestrand.com/

Clavinova, we're going in a couple of weeks for his birthday

Shack-Fuyu in Soho. Amazing food

Leighton House is interesting, but seems there are only tours each Sunday in the summer but will reopen in Sept