These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

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

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

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

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The world's largest wooden structure.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

The discovery of these rare, ancient artifacts led to the creation of a new museum.

The world's most elegant power lines.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.