ROYALTY! MURDER! TORTURE! EXECUTION! AND SHINY THINGS!!! This is the Tower of London. Once a palace, then a prison, now a museum, this impressive compound is now open to the public and dripping with history!
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| Back in its day, the Tower of London was a prison for fancy convicts, not ordinary street criminals. Traitors, royalty, royal traitors, and so forth. Of course, it was still a prison. Rank doesn't mean much if your head's just been chopped off. |
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| This is the gate through which new prisoners would be taken by boat. |
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| Inside the walls was a sort of citadel, which multiple buildings and even more tourists. |
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| The inside of the Traitor's Gate. |
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| And of course, no tour of the Tower of London would be complete without those fancy hat guys! |
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| This was in the armory exhibition. A robotic dragon made almost entirely out of Medieval weaponry. I don't know why it was there or where it came from, but I want one as a pet. Please, Mom? |
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This is Perkin's Steam Gun. A steam-powered gun. Let that sink in for a minute. Epic, no?
It never caught on because of the whole little waiting-for-the-boiler thing, but it would make a pretty epic addition to a steampunky story, |
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| If I remember correctly, this is where the crown jewels are kept. I think. But then, that had a longer line. |
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| I totally thought this guy was a statue. And then he blinked. |
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