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The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

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

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

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

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

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

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

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

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

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

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.