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London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.