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This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

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

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

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

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.