Rotterdam, Netherlands
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A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.
Leiden, Netherlands
Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.
Bears, Netherlands
This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.
Leiden, Netherlands
An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.
Leiden, Netherlands
A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.
De Koog, Netherlands
The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.
Enkhuizen, Netherlands
The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.
Volendam, Netherlands
Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.
Waddinxveen, Netherlands
Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.
Leiden, Netherlands
Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.
Vlissingen, Netherlands
A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.
Middelburg, Netherlands
A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.
Soest, Netherlands
This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.
Leiden, Netherlands
The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.
Steyl, Netherlands
This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.
Aalsmeer, Netherlands
The largest flower auction house in the world.
Zaandam, Netherlands
A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.
Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands
This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Leiden, Netherlands
Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.
Harlingen, Netherlands
Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.