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Mount Rushmore is an oddly popular location; perhaps because it's easy to imagine those presidential heads not being made up of solid rock but instead holding masses of secret rooms inside. It must get ''awfully'' crowded in there.
Note this trope does '''not''' cover bases in or under ''fictitious'' landmarks like ''[[The Fantastic Four]]'''s Baxter Building or [[Fictional Counterpart|"almost" landmarks]] like "The Jeffersonian Institute" in ''[[Bones]]''. It also does not cover a fictional agency openly using a landmark as their base, such as UNIT operating out of the UN building in ''[[
Of course this makes a [[Monumental Battle]] all the more likely to happen if and when the series has the [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|base attacked]].
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* The Canary Wharf Tower one was done by the 90s remake of ''[[The Tomorrow People]]''. The reasoning was that the immortal Egyptian villain needed to hide a power-focusing pyramid in the middle of London, hence the pyramidal top of the tower.
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* The Torchwood Institute has had bases:
** In One Canada Square (a.k.a "Canary Wharf Tower") in "[[Doctor Who
** Under the Thames Barrier in "[[Doctor Who
{{quote| '''Donna:''' What, there's like a secret base hidden under a major London landmark?<br />
'''The Doctor:''' I know, unheard of... }}
** Under Roald Dahl Plass, near the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, where The Hub is based in the [[Whoniverse]] spin-off ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' (and in "[[Doctor Who
* UNIT had one: Under the Tower of London in "The Christmas Invasion". It beat their early place that had a conspicuous "Keep Out" sign.
* Various bad guys have based themselves in/under:
** Gatwick Airport (The Chameleons in "[[Doctor Who
** The Post Office Tower (WOTAN in "[[Doctor Who
** The London Eye (The Nestene Consciousness in "[[Doctor Who
** The Empire State Building (The Cult of Skaro in "[[Doctor Who
* They make an attempt to [[Justified Trope|justify]] many of these, explaining there is something important about the location or nature of the structure that they need. For example, the Torchwood Tower (Canary Wharf) exists because there was a rift high in the air, so they had to build a giant tower to reach it, The Hub's location was chosen due to its proximity with yet another rift and the Nestene Consciousness was using the London Eye as a giant transmitter to broadcast the signal controlling the Autons. In "Daleks in Manhattan", the Daleks attached Dalekanium strips to the top of the Empire State Building (which at the time was the tallest building on Earth) to kick-start a new race of hybrids with a solar flare.
* Canary Wharf is also the headquarters of the British time travelling military in an [[Alternate Universe|alternate 2006]] visited by the First Doctor in the [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Time Travellers''. ''And'' the villain of the Sixth Doctor [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] novel ''Millennial Rites'' (for reasons broadly similar to the ''Tomorrow People'' villain).
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