Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

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

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

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

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

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

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

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

The history and future of cannabis.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.