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An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

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

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

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

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

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

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's old-school healing garden.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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