This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

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

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

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.