Before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620, the Calvinist group spent about ten years in the Dutch town of Leiden. You probably don't know much about what happened to them there. Historian Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs...

"And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." This eye-catching installation called the Moses Bridge lets yo...

Scheveningen prison near the Hague in the Netherlands holds prisoners for the the UN International Crim...

Starting December 1st, the Netherlands will be giving their drunk drivers a holiday gift...

Divorce Hotel is not a particular place, but a ser...  ...t a service available to splitting couples in the Netherlands , in which they can go to a hotel for three days t...

The wooden shoe is symbolic of the Dutch for many of us, but how did they come about, and why? The shoes have several advantages, including one illustrated by a Jackie Chan video in this post at Rue the Day. Link...

Just a short journey away from Amsterdam there is one of the most remarkable nature conservation areas in the world. Oostvaardersplassen is a recreation of the landscape of the Europe of thousands of years ago, before m...

The Inntel Hotel in Zaandam, the Netherlands , is intentionally designed to look like tradition...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5...  ...e lapse video from the fourth largest city in the Netherlands . This is an ordinary Wednesday morning in April...

Well they would have the element of surprise. It's like those kids who tried to hold up a police station. Who would expect that criminals would try to break into a prison? It would make a good gag for a comedy if it...