Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

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

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

The largest flower auction house in the world.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Rich with fauna and flora, nature-lovers can walk across the sea at this UNESCO World Heritage spot.