When you think of the Tower of London, you probably imagine it as somewhere you might go visit as a tourist these days.

Sticking with London's most-spotted lions, we turn next to the mini-pride outside the Tower of London. The three lions at the royal palace are, of course, symbolic of the nation.

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Barbary lions originally roamed northern Africa, from Morocco to Egypt. But they were declared extinct in the wild in 1922, after centuries of over-exploitation and habitat destruction by humans. Some ...

The Tower of London once had a zoo that was home to a now-extinct subspecies of Barbary lion. You won't find any live lions at the Tower of London today. | petekarici/Getty Images.

The Tower of London is no stranger to animal residents, and from the 1200s to 1835, the Tower housed a menagerie of exotic wild animals never before seen in London, including lions, leopards, ...

More: Gains for U.K. Home Sellers Exceeded £100,000 for the First Time Last Year It was even an unlikely zoo until the early 1800s, with a menagerie of exotic wild animals, including lions, an ...

Luxury Living at the Tower of London A newly listed flat looks directly onto the 1,000-year-old fortress that housed some of England’s most notorious prisoners ...

Tours leave from the Tower of London Welcome Centre at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. every day, apart from Sundays and Mondays, when the morning tour starts at 10 a.m. Children of any age are welcome, ...