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Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

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

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

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

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

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

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

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

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.