This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

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

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

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

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

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

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

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

The mirrored section takes the shape of Hebrew characters when viewed from above.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

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

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

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

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