Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

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

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

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

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.