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The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

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

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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.