This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

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

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A retail shop has preserved the 17th-century food cellar from the old building it now occupies.

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

A tiny house showcases the busy life of a local gnome.

Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.