Michael visits the Royal London Hospital in the East End which closed its doors in 2013 but pioneered medical breakthroughs and universal health-care for generations from its founding in 1740.
Michael visits one of the most mysterious places in Britain. On the Suffolk coast lie a complex of bunkers, rusting towers and crumpled military hardware once home to an Anglo-American over-the-horizon radar system.
Michael explores Shepton Mallet prison which over its 400-year history has seen executions and escape attempts, been used as a store for historical documents during wartime and became the U.S. military's WWII death-row.
In 1943, the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain began to be used as a Second World War training ground. The residents were ordered to leave by the War Office and, despite promises to the contrary, have never been allowed to return.