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Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.