Leopold Park

This guide to Leopold Park in Brussels begins in 1878, when miners deep under a Belgian village struck a tangle of enormous bones instead of coal. It follows the Iguanodon skeletons that emerged, the years of waterlogged excavation, and the paleontologist Louis Dollo, who spent decades reassembling them in Brussels using a method the world would later copy. You'll also hear how this ground first served as a failed private zoo before becoming their new home.