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Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

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

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

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

The European equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame is slowly spreading over the entire city.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Thought to be the only herd of feral horses in Africa and one of the most isolated populations in the world.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

This small island off Lambert's Bay is home to more than 2,000 Cape gannets and is the only such breeding colony open to the public.

At one South African whaling station, this industrial extermination led to a feeding frenzy that may have even been a key inspiration for Jaws.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A sculpted indigenous garden featuring more than 60 works by Dylan Lewis.

These 250-year-old wagon tracks are a lasting sign of Dutch migrants crossing the mountains.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.