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

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

A giant yellow phallus sculpture hidden in the gardens of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

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

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

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

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

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.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

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

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

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

This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

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

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

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

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

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

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