Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

The middle finger of modernity.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.