The Tower of London is not only full of history, it is literally full of history…

There are sets of armor and muskets and swords and guns and knives and other fun things like that…

Many of the suits of armor were worn by famous kings and people we all know from history.

It is a little strange to think about how many human beings have died throughout history in order for the world to end up as it is today.

It is a sobering thought… which might be why the world is now so full of bars and pubs…

I am not a fan of the huge set of scaffolding stairs that now allow… wait… is that the back of my head over there on the left? I guess Mollie took this picture. Wow… the back of my head really is flat. I thought that was just a joke.

That right there is the actual Tower of London… the White Tower…

It was built when the London was just recovering from the dark ages following the fall of the Roman Empire, and it wasn’t built to protect the locals… it was built to protect their new overlords from the locals… seriously, you should Google all this stuff.

The Tower has been the center of London for so long in so many ways.

The city grew around it, and the British conquered a large portion of the world.

And during all that history, the Tower loomed there, holding prisoners and keeping secrets.