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The taxidermy of "Alfred," a Western Lowland gorilla who ( in life ) once  inhabited Bristol Zoo.

Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Natural History Collection

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

The Tomarton Bronze Age skeleton

Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Archeology Collection

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

The Bristol Tapestry

Bristol City, England

The Bristol Tapestry

The Bristol Tapestry is a 22-meter artwork depicting 1,000 years of the city's history, created in the 1970s by over 90 local contributors

Interior face of the clock.

Somerset, England

Wells Cathedral Clock

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

Scissor Arches

Wells, England

Scissor Arches

An architectural masterpiece which came in time to solve a dramatic situation inside this magnificent cathedral

Vicars' Close

Somerset, England

Vicars' Close

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

The stone circles at Stanton Drew.

Bristol, England

Stanton Drew Stone Circles

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

Sally Lunn's

Bath, England

Sally Lunn's

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

The Ladders to Heaven

Bath, England

The Ladders to Heaven

Legend has it that Bishop Oliver King dreamed of angels ascending to heaven and ordered the church's reconstruction in the late 1400s

Grey K2 Phone Booth

Bath, England

Grey K2 Phone Booth

An iconic British fixture in an unconventional color.

The remains of Monk's Mill

Bath, England

The remains of Monk's Mill

This humble structure is one of Bath’s few surviving medieval relics

A breathtaking view.

Bath, England

Pulteney Weir

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Bladud and pig

Bath, England

King Bladud statue

This statue that honors King Bladud dates from 1859 and, after being kept in storage for many years, was renovated and moved to the Parade Gardens in 2009. The statue of a pig was added at the same time

Replica of the 7-foot telescope Herschel used to discover Uranus.

Bath, England

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Pero's Bridge

Bristol, England

Pero's Bridge

This pedestrian footbridge honors Pero Jones, an enslaved African who lived in Bristol.

The Mauretania Sign

Bristol City, England

The Mauretania Sign

Installed in 1938, this was the first moving neon sign in Bristol

The Harrowing of Hell

Bristol City, England

The Harrowing of Hell

During a fire in 1831, this remarkable piece of Anglo-Saxon stonework used as a coffin lid was discovered beneath the Chapter House floor of Bristol Cathedral

The empty plinth where Colston's statue once stood.

Bristol, England

Empty Plinth of the Colston Statue

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

Dual-time clock at the Bristol Exchange

Bristol, England

Corn Exchange Dual-Time Clock

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

The Nails outside Bristol's Corn Exchange.

Bristol, England

The Nails

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

Edward Everard's Printing Works

Bristol, England

Edward Everard's Printing Works

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

Lollipop Be-Bop.

Bristol, England

Lollipop Be-Bop

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

Clifton Rocks Railway

Bristol, England

Clifton Rocks Railway

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

Temple of Vaccinia.

Berkeley, England

Temple of Vaccinia

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

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