The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.