After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

Sculpture of a bus made from wrecked passenger cars.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.