The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

The heart of Dutch football history.

An ingenious Dutch land art project uses grass ridges to cut airport noise pollution in half.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

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

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

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

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

This former cigarette factory was built in a style inspired by Islamic architecture.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

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

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.