Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

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

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Hidden along this old street in Antwerp is a surreal monument of a bronze arm sprouting four hands.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

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

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

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

Once housed in the towers of this Gothic church, this 17th century clock still ticks today.

The house of physicists Paul Ehrenfest was also a temporary dwelling and study for his good friend Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein would often sit in this chair during visits to the observatory to discuss science with Willem de Sitter.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.