More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

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

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

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

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

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

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

The cathedral stands in New Jufa, Isfahan's Armenian quarter that was established in 1606.