Natural History Museum

London's Natural History Museum is housed in a magnificent, Victorian-era building across the road from the Victoria and Albert museum. I particularly liked some of the detailing in the architecture - lots of fun animals crawling all over the place.

 The building is so large it's hard to find the right angle for a photo. The museum takes up an entire city block. 

 Dinosaur on the window ledge? Not sure what this creature is (picture taken on maximal zoom), but I like 'im.

 If you look carefully, you can see lots of animals perched around the perimeter of the roof.

 Just inside the main entrance.

 Monkeys swinging around the ceilings.

Monkeys climbing the walls.

Glyptodon. Now extinct about 10,000 years, these guys are cousin to the armadillo and the ostrich egg.

Models of dodo birds made by a 17th c. man who actually saw dodos. They're surprisingly big! It stands to reason, then, that this is not he exaggeration I always though it was:

Alice and the Dodo Bird, original drawing to go with Lewis Carroll's classic.

Entrance to the exhibit on earth science (volcanos, etc.). You get to ride up this escalator through the "earth" globe which glows all coppery. Very glitsy, not terribly substantive.