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Orator at Speakers' Corner at 1974

London, England

Speakers' Corner

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

The Lioness and the Lesser Kudu.

London, England

The Lioness and the Lesser Kudu

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

Battersea Power Staion

London, England

Battersea Power Station

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Replicas of the original effigies to Bastet.

London, England

Black Cats of Carreras Cigarette Factory

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

Fortnum & Mason emerging

London, England

The Fortnum & Mason Clock

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

Fasinus tintinnabulum

London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A Nicobar Tree Shrew in the Grant Museum of Zoology

London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The Soho Square Hut

London, England

The Soho Square Hut

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

Pelicans of St James's Park

London, England

Pelicans of St James's Park

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

The green shelter.

London, England

Cabmen’s Shelter in Russell Square

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

'The End' by Heather Phillipson, 2020.

London, England

The Fourth Plinth

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

Cecil Court.

London, England

Cecil Court

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

London's smallest police station.

London, England

London's Lilliputian Police Station

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

Platform 9 3/4

London, England

Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Charing Cross Mural.

London, England

Charing Cross Mural

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

Covent Garden labyrinth.

London, England

London Underground Labyrinths

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Outside the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

London, England

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

Buses in the London Transport Museum.

London, England

London Transport Museum

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

David Bowie Graffiti Mural

London, England

David Bowie Graffiti Mural

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The multicolored sign at Brixton Road.

London, England

Electric Avenue

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

Hunterian Museum

London, England

Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

London Necropolis Railway Station

London, England

London Necropolis Railway Station

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Twinings tea shop on the Strand.

London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

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

Trench armour

London, England

The Imperial War Museum London

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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