Believe it or not

The Four Horses of Helios leap from a fountain on the corner of Piccadilly and Haymarket, just over the road from the expensive fluff of Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Helios is the Greek god of the sun: each morning at dawn he rises from the ocean in the east and rides his chariot through the sky, pulled by his four horses - Pyrois, Eos, Aethon and Phlegon - to descend at night in the west.

But it's not all sunny and bright: when Helios allowed his son Phaeton to guide his chariot across the sky, the unskilled youth lost control of the horses and fell to his death. They don't tell you that in the Ripley's.