After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

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

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Built after WWII, the observatory site for the University of Copenhagen exhibits once world-class instruments.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.