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A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.