A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

This Renaissance palace features a unique architectural design and is now home to the Ferrara National Art Gallery.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

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

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

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

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.