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A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.

Aboriginal artists carved these unique figures into sandstone.

This fascinating and unusual geological formation dominates a suburb of Canberra.

An impressive site containing some of the earth’s rarest living fossils.

This is London's smallest listed building.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

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

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

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

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

A 15th-century whalebone is tucked away in an unassuming corner of this medieval church.