An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

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

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

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

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

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

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.

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

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

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

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

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

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

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

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

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.