10 Man-made Structures- Other to Explore in South Holland

Utrecht Science Park is a science park and neighbourhood in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is located to the east of the city. It is the largest campus of Utrecht University. Apart from the faculties of Law, Humanities and University College Utrecht, most of the university buildings are located in Utrecht Science Park. It is also a main location of the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and the University Medical Center Utrecht, and houses the main university library.

The Maastunnel is the oldest submerged tunnel in the Netherlands. It connects the banks of the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam . The tunnel consists of four tubes: two for cars, one for cyclists and one for pedestrians. Construction started in 1937 and was completed in 1942. Every day, more than 75,000 motor vehicles and around 7,000 cyclists and moped riders, as well as 150 pedestrians , use this tunnel. [2] This makes the Maastunnel an important link in the Rotterdam road network.

The Markthal is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam.[8] The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.

Miniworld Rotterdam is the largest indoor miniature world in the Netherlands with a provisional surface of 600 m 2 in scale 1:87 . The attraction was previously called Railz Miniworld. An important part of this permanent exhibition of model railways is model railways and a variety of model construction , from detailed landscape construction to model construction .

Molen De Valk is a scaffolding mill and museum on the Lammermarkt in the Dutch city of Leiden. The current stone scaffolding mill is the third mill that has stood on this site. In 1611 the post mill "De Valck" was built on the Valkenburger stronghold. Since 2 June 1966, the mill has been in use as a municipal mill museum. De Valk has been milling again since 2000. As of 1 June 2013, the Molenmuseum De Valk is part of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken .

Naturalis Biodiversity Center is a research institute and natural history museum in the South Holland city of Leiden . Naturalis, the Netherlands Center for Biodiversity was created from a merger between the Zoological Museum Amsterdam , the National Herbarium of the Netherlands and the Natural History Museum Naturalis.

Panorama Mesdag is a cylindrical panorama painting about 14 meters high and 120 meters in circumference. The painting, which is one of the oldest surviving panoramas in the world, is a vista of the North Sea , the dunes, The Hague and Scheveningen . It belongs to the ' Top 100 of the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg ' from 1990.

Space Expo is the official visitor center of ESTEC, the European Space Agency's development and testing center. During weekends and holidays you can take part in the Space Train, an hour-long tour of the development and test spaces in the ESTEC building.

The Steam Train Katwijk Leiden is a narrow-gauge railway around Lake Valkenburg in Valkenburg , a district of Katwijk in South Holland. The museum is normally open on weekends from Easter weekend to the end of October. On these days, the steam train usually leaves at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Historical locomotives are used with passenger cars or lorries that were built in-house in the 1980s.

The windmills of Kinderdijk are a unique feat of global culture. That's why this area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a group of 19 monumental windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Most of the mills are part of the village of Kinderdijk in the municipality of Molenlanden, and one mill, De Blokker, is part of the municipality of Alblasserdam. Built in 1738 and 1740, to keep water out of the older.