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Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

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

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

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

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.