Rotterdam is an excellent city break or day trip from the popular Europe destination of Amsterdam. The city is Holland’s port, one of the largest ports in Europe. I love walking along the river and exploring the many shops and little cafes. But more importantly,it’s also home to some of Europe’s most bizarre architecture. I believe in this case, pictures are worth a thousand words.

As this photo by Gastev shows, all seems normal on the surface. It’s a bit unusual to see such an American-esque skyline in Holland, but anyway…

But then wow – from nnova‘s photo you realise not all of the skyscrapers are “normal”….

Some day the Rotterdam Library (on the left here in Sasha‘s photo) looks like a cruise liner. And I don’t need to explain which building is called the pencil building.

Ah, and then we end up at the Cube Houses – Silvain takes a good shot, but these are probably the most photographed piece of architecture in Rotterdam.

We’d be here all day if I pointed out all the unique, unusual, bizarre, strange, interesting, weird, scary, odd Rotterdam architecture.

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