This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.

This stately council chamber hasn't changed since 1545.

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

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.

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

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

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

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

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

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

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

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.