The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

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

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

This stately council chamber hasn't changed since 1545.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

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

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.

The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

The Netherlands is home to a bridge printed out of reinforced concrete.