A popular uprising has driven Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych out of office and into hiding. On Saturday, anti-government protesters accessed the once heavily secured presidential estate outside Kiev and discovered an opulent mansion, complete with helipad, golf course, yacht, half-built car museum, exotic birds from Burma, and a petting zoo.

Here are pictures of the palaces revealed when some of the world's most notorious leaders were ousted.

Anti-government protesters find exotic ostriches as part of a private zoo on the grounds of Yanukovych's residence, known as Mezhyhirya.

Nicolae Ceaușescu was Romania's brutal communist ruler from 1965 until 1989, when he was overthrown in a revolution and killed with his wife by firing squad after the couple was found guilty of crimes against