This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

A farm turned upside down.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

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

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This magenta statue commemorates the legendary marriage between a mermaid and the city's founder.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

A long-closed church turned into a saintly skate park.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

The only bicycle museum in the Netherlands charts the invention of the now-ubiquitous two-wheeled machine.

The hands on this clock appear to be created by two workers sweeping debris into careful positions.

Found in the waddenzee, this propeller has been put on public display as a reminder of the Second World War.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.