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The left-hand property (No. 22) is inhabited, but the right-hand one (No. 23) is only a façade.

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.

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

London, England

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Rolling Bridge

London, England

Rolling Bridge

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The long view of Cooper's Row

London, England

London Wall

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Queen Caroline's Bath.

London, England

Queen Caroline's Bath

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Public Standards of Length at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

London, England

Public Standards of Length

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Tower Bridge Chimney.

London, England

Tower Bridge Chimney

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice

London, England

Postman's Park: Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The epitaph to the unknown London girl

London, England

Tomb of the Unknown London Girl

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Billingsgate Roman Baths.

London, England

Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

One of the Cornhill Devils.

London, England

The Cornhill Devils

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

Chequer Street Wooden Paving

London, England

Chequer Street Wooden Paving

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

How Mansion House Square might have looked

London, England

Mansion House Square

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

Grasshopper.

London, England

Signs of Old Lombard Street

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House

London, England

London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House

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

The view from the laboratory.

London, England

Monument to the Great Fire of London

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Pathway through St Magnus

London, England

Remains of the Old London Bridge

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The piece of timber.

London, England

Roman Wharf Timber

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

Pudding Lane sign

London, England

Pudding Lane

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The two mice eating cheese. Or are they fighting for it?

London, England

Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Exterior of St Olave's, taken from Seething Lane.

London, England

St Olave Hart Street

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

London, England

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Aldgate Pump.

London, England

Aldgate Pump

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

Tower Bridge’s Dead Man’s Hole

London, England

Tower Bridge’s Dead Man’s Hole

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

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