The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.