This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

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

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

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

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

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

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

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

Dutch woodpile home in the forest.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

Where lovers tie birch branches into long-lived knots.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

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

The Netherlands is home to a bridge printed out of reinforced concrete.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.