Lisse, Netherlands
Black Tulip Museum
A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.
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Lisse, Netherlands
A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.
Lisse, Netherlands
Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.
Marknesse, Netherlands
This former hydraulic laboratory is now a woodland dotted with old engineering models.
Sint Jansklooster, Netherlands
Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.
Giethoorn, Netherlands
This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.
Wiuwert, Netherlands
A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.
Bears, Netherlands
This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.
Haarlem, Netherlands
This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Leiden, Netherlands
This public toilet built in the famous Amsterdam School architectural style is a Dutch national monument.
Leiden, Netherlands
One of the great math minds of the 17th century is underfoot in this 900 year old Dutch church.
Leiden, Netherlands
A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.
Alatskivi, Estonia
A wealthy aristocratic family built this Disney-worthy, fairy-tale castle.
Berlin, Germany
Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.
Berlin, Germany
This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Zossen, Germany
A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."
Zossen, Germany
Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.
Vetschau, Germany
Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.
Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Spreetal, Germany
A radio tower with something unusual between its legs.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.