Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

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

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years worth of shipwreck artifacts.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

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

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

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.