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Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

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

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

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

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

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

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

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

This giant radio telescope would be a rusting ruin if it hadn't become such a beloved relic.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

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

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

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

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.