It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

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

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

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.