This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

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

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

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

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

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

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

The history and future of cannabis.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

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

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.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.