Where lovers tie birch branches into long-lived knots.

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

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

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

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

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

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

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

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

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

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

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

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The narrowest street in Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.