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

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.