London, England
The Burney Relief
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
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London, England
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
London, England
A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.
London, England
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
London, England
This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.
London, England
This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.
London, England
This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.
London, England
A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.
London, England
The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.
London, England
A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.
London, England
The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.
London, England
A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.
London, England
This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.
London, England
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
London, England
This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.
Ely, England
This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
London, England
Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.
Wilmington, England
This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.
East Sussex, England
This mysterious chalk figure of a horse has been recreated and restored for more than a century.