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

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

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

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.