A timeline of London history on the Thames Path, installed in 2014

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.

The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.

Since 1877, the characters of Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” have been keeping time in this Leeds arcade.

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

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

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1