Highlights

• Learn how a condemned prisoner escaped a castle hidden inside a book chest, then wrote the laws that govern international waters to this day

• Stand before a screaming bronze figure with a hole ripped through its chest, marking the exact spot where Rotterdam's medieval heart was destroyed

• Find out why a billboard reading "Melly Shum Hates Her Job" sparked public protests and became a permanent city landmark

• Trace how a barber's regular lunch order at a shawarma shop accidentally created a dish now listed on the Dutch Intangible Cultural Heritage register

• Spot the wall where a street artist painted a diamond ring in a magpie's beak to propose to his girlfriend