This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

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

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

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

The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.

This stately council chamber hasn't changed since 1545.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

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.

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

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A massive explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings in the city of Leiden is remembered by a waterside plaque.

This 11th-century castle sits so low you can't see it behind the surrounding buildings.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.