The Red Light District Amsterdam is a beautiful area and the later it gets, the busier it gets.

And the darker it gets, the more obvious the glow of the fluorescent red lights above the many windows in the area becomes.

Dating back to the 14th Century when sailors arrived in need of some female company, the redlight area is full of sex shops, brothels, gay bars, cinemas, hotels and different kinds of museums. This infamous part of the city is a major tourist attraction. Each year, millions of visitors come to see this vibrant and exciting part of Amsterdam.

Amsterdam's sex workers came to work early today to offer a free look into their business in the red-light district.

Hundreds of wide-eyed visitors queued in the sunshine to enter the dimly-lit sex clubs and peep shows that draw thousands to the city and to snoop around sex workers' neon-lit boudoirs.

“I think the open day is a great idea,” said Love, an erotic dancer at Amsterdam's Banana Bar, who was on hand to answer questions and pose for photographs.

The most striking visual aspect of the Red Light District is probably the windows. You feel like you're walking down Fifth Avenue in New York, except that in the windows you don't see Gucci bags and Hermes scarves.

You see girls. There are the fat ones and the skinny ones and the Eastern European ones and the Asian ones and the old ones and the "barely legal" ones. One woman was bent over touching her toes, while her rear end--apparently her special feature--protruded in the window.