This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

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

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

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

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

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

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.