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A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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