He promised them a rose garden

Where: Near Benešov, Czech Republic
When: June 2014

In this photo of the main rose garden at the Konopiště chateau you see a true rarity: animals that are actually alive. Those are two beautiful (but loud) peacocks enjoying the summer weather and thanking their lucky stars that the chateau's most famous resident, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, isn't around to kill them. Ferdinand claimed to have killed more than 300,000 animals, many of which are trophies hanging on the walls of the chateau's rooms and hallways. You may notice the "100" arranged in the well-kept circle -- that's because the chateau is marking the anniversary of the archduke's assassination, which happened 100 years ago to the day of this post. One chateau tour gives you the opportunity to view the bullet that killed him and kicked off World War I.