This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

The place where houses are born.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The history and future of cannabis.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.