Pipe Museum, Amsterdam

This quirky but classy little museum houses 300 years' worth of pipes in a 17th-century canal house. Honestly, it's almost worth the entrance fee just to get a peek inside one of these fancy homes. You start your visit in the shop on the street level, and it's so fascinating it could be a museum all on its own. They sell both new and antique pipes, all sorts of smoking-related knick-knacks, and books written by the shop's owner for the true enthusiasts. If you're up for it, you can pay a little extra to enter the museum, and a friendly volunteer guide will take you upstairs for a journey through the history of smoking. You'll get to see pre-Columbian terra-cotta pipes (from the folks who discovered tobacco around 500 BC), then move on to plenty of beautifully carved Victorian smoking gear. Think long-stemmed Dutch pipes (the Dutch were the first to bring tobacco to Europe), meerschaum pipes (crafted from a soft white mineral), and pipes even carved into portraits, and more. Feel free to ask questions – your guide will happily explain things like why opium pipes have their bowls in the middle of the stem or why some white clay pipes are a whopping foot long.