“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

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

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

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

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

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

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

A retail shop has preserved the 17th-century food cellar from the old building it now occupies.

Once housed in the towers of this Gothic church, this 17th century clock still ticks today.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

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

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

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

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