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

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.