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London, England

The Navigators

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
London, England

Stompie: The Mandela Way T-34 Tank

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

Site of Execution Dock

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
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The Mayflower Pub

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
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Brunel Museum Grand Entrance Hall

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

A student driver's nightmare.
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
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Ragged School Museum

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
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The Blind Beggar

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

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.
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The Tower of London Menagerie

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

Tower of London's Ceremony of the Keys

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.
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Beauchamp Tower

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.
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The Tower Ravens

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
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Traitors' Gate

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
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Silver Jubilee Crystal Crown

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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Leadenhall Market

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.
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Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
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The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
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Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.