TITLE: Embeddings $A → B → A$, but $A \not\cong B$?
QUESTION [15 upvotes]: Are there any nice examples of structures (groups, modules, rings, fields) $A$ and $B$ such that there are embeddings $A → B → A$ while $A \not\cong B$? I would especially like to see an example for modules $A$, $B$. Or is it even true that the existence of such embeddings implies $A \cong B$?
Background: I’m correcting exercises and I wanted to give a counterexample to a failing argument. (Well, I’m not certain it fails, but I’m pretty sure it does and it’s not sufficiently justified at least.)

REPLY [2 votes]: Shapes up to scale: a triangle embeds into a square embeds into a bigger triangle.