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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.