Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

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

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

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

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

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.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

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

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

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

An interactive museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the home computer.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.