Amersfoort, Netherlands
Belgian Monument
This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.
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Amersfoort, Netherlands
This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.
Loenen, Netherlands
The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.
Arnhem, Netherlands
A set of beech hedges planted in the 19th century forms a tunnel that takes on a different appearance in every season.
Enkhuizen, Netherlands
The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.
Bears, Netherlands
This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.
Arnhem, Netherlands
This large open-air museum showcases the ordinary lives of the people of the Netherlands and pre-industrial crafts and practices.
Zaandam, Netherlands
Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.
Pisa, Italy
The mysterious “claw marks” said to be left by the Devil on Pisa’s famous cathedral.
Rome, Italy
An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.
Rome, Italy
A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.
Élancourt, France
France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Laboe, Germany
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
Hrabušice, Slovakia
Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.
Utrecht, Netherlands
The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
Oudewater, Netherlands
The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.
Iceland
An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.
Munich, Germany
King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Capriate San Gervasio, Italy
A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."