I visited London right after I read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, and we ended up in a cathedral off Fleet Street (I was quite disappointed that my mental image from the books was a 20m wide open sewer and in fact the buildings today might only be 5m apart close to the Thames) which was designed by Christopher Wren after the London Fire. I don't recall the name, I'm sure someone here who knows London can work it o…
> a cathedral off Fleet Street If you're ever in America, there's an interesting tower block on 34th Street, and some civic buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue which are worth a look.
> The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels by American writer Neal Stephenson. It was published in three volumes containing eight books in 2003 and 2004.
The cathedral was lovely, but also with my ex wife, so some of the details of that trip are fuzzy by choice (others the ravages of age).