London, England
Leinster Gardens False Facades
You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.
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London, England
You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.
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Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
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The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.
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19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
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An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.
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A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
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The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
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A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
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These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.
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This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.
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London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
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The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
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The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
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The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
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Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.
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The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.
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The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.
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A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
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A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.
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One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
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This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.
London, England
This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.