The Tower of London once had a zoo that was home to a now-extinct subspecies of Barbary lion. In the 1200s, King John started the royal menagerie in the Tower of London to hold the exotic animals ...

Archeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced Thursday that they have unearthed remains of a ...

The menagerie's animals were transported to Regents Park, and settled into their new home in London Zoo. In 1599, Father John Gerard escaped from the Cradle Tower. He sent his escape plan to his ...

Big Ben, officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, which has stood at the Palace of Westminster since 1859. Over the years, shifting ground conditions and the construction of London’s Jubilee ...

Grenfell Tower in west London, the site of a deadly fire that killed 72 people nearly eight years ago, will be taken down, the British government announced on Friday. The decision to "carefully ...

It's now home to the royal family's most valuable crowns and jewels and there are lots of big birds called ravens living there. There is a story that if the ravens leave, the Tower of London will ...