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

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

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

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

One could not be blamed for literally walking all over this supposed landmark.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

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

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.