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Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

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

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.