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Successor to a chapel that would have existed since at least 1245, the church of Vlieland has a distinct architecture setting it apart from its counterparts on the mainland. Its name, however, it only received upon the 350-year anniversary of the building in its current state (1997).
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This is the oldest building of the island, originating shortly after 1575 and since the 1950s home to this little museum. It has a collection of art works on display, mostly from the hand of local artist Betzy Akersloot-Berg, who was Nordic by birth but lived in this house from the end of the 19th century. The museum also has a range of silver works, photos, clocks, sea charts, model ships, on top of ample information about the island's history, and some of its notable inhabitants with most notably Willem de Vlamingh, a 17th-century explorer who mapped a lot of Perth and its surrounding bays.
Without a doubt the landmark of Vlieland. Vuurduin (meaning fire-dune) was constructed in 1876 as the lower lighthouse of IJmuiden. Its three top-most floors were however deconstructed and rebuilt on Vlieland, functioning as the island's lighthouse since. Due to its location atop the Vuurboetsduin, one of the Netherlands' highest dunes, the lighthouse itself only measures in at 16.8 m. The lighthouse, originally designed by Quirinus Harder, who pioneered cast iron lighthouses in the Netherlands, is entirely automated these days, and is open to visitors under supervision of a lighthouse keeper during irregular times that are announced on the website of VVV Vlieland (look for 'Bezichtinging Vuurtoren').