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This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

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

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

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

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

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.