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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

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

This painted wooden sculpture depicts the characters of a popular Devon folk song.

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

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.