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This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

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

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

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.