View Larger Map Everyone knows about London Bridge moving to the States. Most people are aware that Marble Arch was formerly outside Buckingham Palace, and that the Crystal Palace hopped from North to South. But a Christopher Wren church in Missouri? Part of the House of Commons in Belsize Park? Next to a section of old Waterloo Bridge? Who knew? Thankfully, Londonist keeps a watchful eye on the city's buildings. The itinerant structures have been......

London and its environs - if Google maps had a cultural bias setting. We want your distorted images of London. Have a look through our archives, be inspired, and send entries to londonist at gmail dot com. Image by M@......

View Larger Map Cold War bunkers, abandoned Tube stations, buried rivers, deep level shelters...London's concealed features are among its most intriguing. So, in age-old Londonist tradition, we've created a map to try and show what a hollow city this is. And we need your help. We've plotted the more obvious features - the Fleet River, Zone 1 ghost stations, the Kingsway telephone exchange, etc. But we know there's a lot more down there. Please use......

A week after opening for the Queen, St Pancras International is finally ready for the likes of us. The station has been restored beyond its former glory. Britain's answer to Central Station is ready for business. Everyone knows by now that the sumptious Euston Road frontage to the station was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. But what else in London did the Great Scott design? Time to dust off our old 'Stalks' series,......

You want entertainment in London, you say? And you want it for free? Well, good sir or madam, you've come to the right place. Anyone who's lived in this fair city for a while knows that free entertainment is actually all around us. From our world-class museums to almost uncountable numbers of galleries; hear talks by some of the planet's great thinkers, and japery from the best new comics. It's all free, and it's......

Well, the big man’s in town – over thirty times – so we thought it apt to track down his other work in the capital. On the map at the bottom, green points indicate temporary installations that form the Event Horizon project, and purple markers are permanent pieces that predate this show. 1. Quantum Cloud, Greenwich Peninsula Did you know that London contains a Gormley sculpture taller than the Angel of the North? Quantum Cloud......

UPDATE 27 April 2008 THIS MAP IS BEING UPDATED Almost 200 wifi hotspots have now been mapped. Please keep suggestions coming in. Remember, the location must offer wifi access for free. MacDonalds are rolling out free wifi to all their branches, but we're not going to map all them unless they want to sponsor us! UPDATE 19 January 2008 We now have 169 bars, restaurants and hotels mapped, and will continue updating the map......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 36. Marble Arch Underpass Where? It's an underpass. It passes under Marble Arch. Like, dur. What? This haphazard collection of tunnels was constructed in the early 1960s, to improve pedestrian access to Hyde Park. Ha! It’s a choice of two evils – brave the heavy traffic or plunge into the depths. We asked an aged and wise hermit on the corner of Edgware Road for advice.......

Antony Gormley's rooftop statues are this year's Sultan's Elephant. The tourist bewilderment devices (TBDs) have been appearing on the highpoints around the Hayward Gallery like petrified chimneysweeps. In response to our first post about this, someone suggested we map them. Well, here you go. It's a work in progress, and we'll add to it as more of the iron brutes get erected. Let us know if you've spotted further statues, or if we've got......

In a reverse of the old cliché, here's a few thousand words painting a picture. This typographical image of London is by NB: Studio, and can be yours for £100. Blurred lady not included. If you want to try before you buy, a much-condensed PDF version is available. Alternatively, create your own using a barrel of correction fluid, an A-Z and a steady, patient hand. With thanks to the really rather beautiful Moon River......

And by 'random', this week we really do mean random. OK, so it's just a shitty bit of scawl on City Road, but is there anything more behind the message 'Brooke Shields Alphabet" that we're not getting? Is it some kind of advert for the V&A's surreal exhibition? Your theories please. UPDATE: All reported sightings are mapped here. Please add further examples to the comments and we'll map those too.......

The tragic tale of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko continues to take many twists and turns. At the latest count, 12 London locations have tested positive for polonium, and are known to have been visited by Litvinenko and his associates. We've mapped the 11 that have been disclosed, plus Mr Litvinenko's final resting place, below.......

Pounding the streets of London in search of obscure buildings and forgotten sculptures is far too much like hard work with the current sticky weather. So we thought we’d put together a Stalk from the comfort of the couch. Purely as a bit of fun. So, here’s our stalk of Dr Who. Who Lives Where? When he’s not living in the Tardis, the Doctor might be found at a number of addresses in and around......

Charles Holden (1875-1960) is a man with two careers. On the one hand, he gave us impressive Portland stone giants like the Senate House and 55 Broadway – two of London’s tallest buildings in their day. But the same chap also masterminded the design of 20 or so tube stations – those elegant brown brick affairs best seen on the northern stretch of the Piccadilly Line. These in particular show off Holden’s principles of......

OK, OK, we know most of you will be sick of reading about Hawksmoor. But Londonist are completer-finisher types, and after stalking so many lesser London luminaries we feel obliged to tackle the great church-building, conspiracy-generating architect. There must be some readers out there who haven’t read Iain Sinclair’s trademark lucidity-shy ramblings on how Hawksmoor’s six churches align with other sites of dubious significance to form a pretty pattern. Or Peter Ackroyd’s erudite reinterpretation......

Like so many of our stalks, you may or may not have heard of the fellow, but you’ll certainly know his handiwork. Richard Seifert has made more of a mark, some would say stain, on London’s modern skyline than any other individual. His most famous buildings are the NatWest Tower (properly known as Tower 42) and the skeletal Centre Point, but he also contributed, for better or worse, tens of other familiar structures to our......

Normally when Londonist goes stalking, it’s to track down connected works of art, or famous buildings by the same architect. But we decided to take the word ‘stalk’ back to its hunting routes this week. Prompted by the news that the Beast of Bexley has at last been photographed, we thought we should go and bag ourselves a wild cat. Big cat sightings are not unusual in the UK. Although their existence in the......

There can be few buildings in Europe to match the splendor of the Palace of Westminster. Millions of tourists, some of them off-worlders, flock to the landmark each year, even if few actually enter. But a couple of weeks back (and sorry to keep going on about it) Londonist did just that. Our tour of the houses of parliament inspired us to find out more about the architect, Charles Barry. Was this his only......

All the works featured in this stalk are also mapped on Platial. US-born Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) is a colossal figure in 20th Century sculpture. Controversial could almost be his middle name. His various works around London caused outrage in their day, but are now in danger of being forgotten. Perhaps his most powerful work on show in the capital is ‘Jacob and the Angel’ underneath the central dome of Tate Britain. Being indoors, this......

After spending last week photographing dead presidents, we thought it only decent to turn our services to former British prime ministers. The Parliament Square Collection Dead monarchs have Westminster Abbey; prime ministers have Parliament Square. There’s six of the blighters here, with a seventh – David Lloyd George – in the works if funding can be raised. Canning by Richard Westmacott (1832); Peel by Matthew Noble (1851); Lord Derby also by Noble (1874); Palmerston......

That’s right. This week we decided to track down the Leader of the Free World. He might sit in the oval office but, when in London, it seems that he prefers to hang out in squares… FDR, Grosvenor Square You can’t sit comfortably in Grosvenor Square. Armed guards doggedly patrol the Western end, protecting the US embassy. The giant gilt eagle nesting atop this concrete cliff adds another layer of menace. And then there’s its......

Goldfinger. Bah-Bah BAH! He’s the man…who should have used thicker toilet paperrrrr. So went the iconic sixties Bond theme. (Or was that the man with the golden pun? No matter.) Goldfinger is that rare example of a man who left his mark on both the silver screen and the west London skyline. For those who are puzzled right now, the famous Bond villain was actually named after a real-life architect, one Ernő Goldfinger. Ian......

All the places featured in this Stalk are now mapped on Platial. You may remember we recently tracked down all the London-based work of Eduardo Paolozzi. This time, we took the logical step of pursuing his contemporary Enzo Plazotta. Eduardo Paolozzi… Enzo Plazzotta. You could be forgiven for confusing the two, particularly given that they were both British artists of Italian origin. Their works are very different, however. Whereas Paolozzi meshed and mashed man with......

And, by God, did he get around. Stalking Paolozzi was a piece of cake in comparison. The map above is our stab at showing all Dickens’ London addresses. But sources conflict, and there’s bound to be a few missing. During his childhood, Dickens hopped from home to home as his father tried to dodge the debt collectors. Following in his footsteps, we similarly hopped from one location to the next, though largely on account......

All the places featured in this Stalk are now mapped on Platial. Once in a blue Monday, Editro gives us, the grovelling unpaid writers of Londonist, permission to leave our desks and get some fresh air. But only if we get up to some London-based mischief. Our latest nefarious task, should we choose to accept it - and we do - is to cover the length and breadth of the town, stalking famous Londoners.......