An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

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

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

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

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

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

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

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

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

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

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

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

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.