odd london

For Monday, 2 July, if not other times:

• Highgate Cemetery (includes Marx's Grave [you can't dance on it, it is too high] which is in the East Cemetery--free--along with a lot of much more 19th-century style plinths, etc.; used in horror films; great for markers of Victorian social hierarchy; Tours of the older West Cemetery are every weekday @ 2, I believe, and every hour on the weekends, for a fiver; Archway Tube, then walk or bus north)
• Jeremy Bentham Cabinet (part of his will is that his body would be kept, seated, and "If it should so happen that my personal friends and other disciples should be disposed to meet together on some day or days of the year for the purpose of commemorating the founder of the greatest happiness system of morals and legislation my executor will from time to time cause to be conveyed to the room in which they meet the said box or case with the contents therein to be stationed in such part of the room as to the assembled company shall seem meet." And so it has been since 1832. At the end of the South Cloisters of the main building of UCL; University College, London, north of Senate House)
• Abbey Road Studios (more famous than odd; 3 Abbey Road; St. John's Wood; zebra crossing out front, used for the Abbey Road album by the Beatles and countless imitators is oddly just as famous. It is a fairly busy road, so be careful if taking someone else's picture--the cars should stop for someone in the zebra crossing but the camera person outside that area is fair game; here, for example, is a Dutch chap's mijn Abbey Roadpagina)