Places roeltersteeg Wants to Go

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

The tallest mountain in mainland Netherlands isn't actually very tall.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

The world's longest wildlife overpass provides Hilversum's critters with a safe alternative to trying their luck on the roadway.

The place where houses are born.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.