Schiedam, Netherlands
Noletmolen
Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.
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Schiedam, Netherlands
Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.
Dordrecht, Netherlands
“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.
The Hague, Netherlands
The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.
The Hague, Netherlands
The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.
Lelystad, Netherlands
Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.
Leiden, Netherlands
For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.
Leiden, Netherlands
Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.
Leiden, Netherlands
People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.
Leiden, Netherlands
A relic of the old jail still stands in its original location.
Leiden, Netherlands
An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.
's-Graveland, Netherlands
The place where houses are born.
Volendam, Netherlands
The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands
A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.
Barcelona, Spain
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.
Barcelona, Spain
A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.
Barcelona, Spain
For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.
Barcelona, Spain
An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.
Vilaplana, Spain
Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.
Oudenbosch, Netherlands
Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.
Enkhuizen, Netherlands
The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.