Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
St. Anthony's Chapel
This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Nevers, France
The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.
Vienna, Austria
The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.
St. Augustine, Florida
A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Kinokawa, Japan
A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Chicago, Illinois
These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Seattle, Washington
Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Rosamond, California
Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Sunol, California
The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.
Wellington, New Zealand
A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.