>This lighthouse was built in 1909 at the mouth of the Thames River in Long Island Sound. It served a dual purpose as a channel marker and lighthouse. During the hurricane of 1938, the waves were breaking over the top of the light tower. Two lightkeepers were in the building during the storm. The basement and lower level were flooded.

From this abandoned Edwardian lighthouse, one descends into the flooded lower levels with the help of a suit of bizarrely sophisticated but certainly antiquated diving equipment, and boards the train beneath the sea floor which takes them directly into the heart of the primeval marshbed beneath London. As the train leaves the tunnel, the immensity of size and an age of the subterranean pit all around is inescapable. Among the unearthed rubble mix a Roman temple and Nordic runes, and stretching for as far as the eye can see is a tree that could be descended from Yggdrasil itself. And nestled into the great tree are the towns and boroughs of what must be the rumored city, the London-Below, the conspiratorial metropolis written of in the madman's diaries you purchased in the old estate sale.

The city of New Jerusalem.

> Following the disaster of the Boer War and the resulting crisis in national confidence, the eminent scientist Sir Edward Dalton proscribed as the only possible solution to the moral degeneration of Britons the new science, in fact a genetic religion of hereditary genius, eugenics - the science of human advancement.
> He and his colleagues conspired in the construction of a haven from which to escape the Lloyd-George government, completing the underground city and going below during the "dark days" of the post-war Lloyd-George coalition ministry.
> The city was made possible by the sapling of the Tree of Life from the Himalayas, and the Soma flowers which bloomed from it - symbiotic organisms which made gross cellular mutation achievable; speeding up the construction and the subsequent breeding program immensely.