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There is a mosaic mural of a swan in Rotherhithe that has an indirect link with the late entertainer, Max Bygraves.

Two hundred years ago a huge plot of land was secured as an open park, by means of simply ploughing a deep ditch all around it.

In genteel Pimlico can be found a statue of the Greek god, Priapus, protector of gardens, fruit plants, livestock... and male genitals.

A weatherworn, and better for it bronze is frozen in time trying to hail a taxi cab next to London's Embankment.

On the Embankment near Blackfriars is a normal looking phone box with a most delightful stained glass addition.

Next to the tube station entrance inside Liverpool Street station can be found a bronze statue of two refugees from the Nazi pogroms.

A hotel in Holborn also contains a most unexpected statue -- of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Not far from a famous football stadium is the Gilpin's Bell, a large pub that is packed on match days. And further up the road is a less famous stone bell.

Next to the Thames in Woolwich are a cluster of steel men forever frozen in a meeting that is about to take place.

A tall metal sculpture stands in a public park, holding up a couple of CCTVs that keep an eye on the area.

A small side street near Victoria contains a mosaic that people will tell you is an old advert for the Victor Talking Machine Company. They are wrong.

Standing proud above the tourists on Westminster Bridge is a statue of a noble lion who gave hope to London during WW2 and was saved by a King.

This statue of a man and a boy in Rotherhithe is going to be very heavily photographed for it will be a major site of pilgrimage for Americans in 2020.

In London's docklands is a roundabout, and in the middle a tree, blinking and flashing away -- made from a cluster of traffic lights.

It's quite easy to miss for such a large object, but high up on the wall of the Stock Exchange building is a giant sundial.