Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

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

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.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.

This Dutch statue is a monument to the fictional shrew who brought doom to the city of Stavoren.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 70 species of monkeys roam free alongside their human visitors.

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

This giant radio telescope would be a rusting ruin if it hadn't become such a beloved relic.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.