Animals

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

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

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.