Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oost-Indisch Huis
The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
Strasbourg, France
Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.
Strasbourg, France
Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.
Strasbourg, France
There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.
Cologne, Germany
This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.
Cologne, Germany
The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne, Germany
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Paris, France
A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.
Paris, France
A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.