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

This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.

The Ranger’s House exhibits fine mementos collected by Sir Julius Werner during the course of his life, including this infamous pendant.

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

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

A mineral spring that became all the rage in 17th-century England.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

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

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

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

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

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

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

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

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