Every statue in London has a story. Go and stand in front of it.

The densest gathering of political statuary in Britain — prime ministers, presidents and campaigners face the Houses of Parliament.

Around the Palace of Westminster and the river: kings, warrior queens and the suffragettes who fought to enter the building behind them.

London's ceremonial heart, ringed with admirals, kings and the ever-changing Fourth Plinth.

The street of government, lined with field marshals and war memorials.

The processional route to Buckingham Palace, with Waterloo Place's explorers and reformers at one end and the Victoria Memorial at the other.

Dandies, presidents and monarchs tucked among the clubs and galleries.

A traffic island of triumph and grief: Wellington's monuments beside some of the most powerful war memorials ever made.

Fairy-tale bronzes and royal memorials scattered through London's grandest park landscape.

The Square Mile's dragons, cats, golden boys and queens — small statues with long stories.

Playwrights, performers and crime writers among the theatres.

Scholars, lovers and poets around the stations and the British Library.

From Baker Street to Highgate Hill — detectives, singers and a famous cat.

Actors and monuments along the river's cultural mile.

Saints and scholars along the river at Chelsea.

Greenwich, Wembley, Paddington — statues worth the journey.