The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.