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An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

Taxidermy of a famous hippo who spent three years walking over a thousand miles across South Africa.

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.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.