A gigantic teapot sitting on top of a parking garage in the center of Utrecht.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

Rejoice at Amsterdam's ‘pop temple,’ a former church reborn as a raucous music venue.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.