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.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

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

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

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

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.