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The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

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

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

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

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

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

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

The history and future of cannabis.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

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

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

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