Speaking of the United States, if you're from the US you must know about AAA, the American Automobile Association. Members can visit AAA offices for travel services, free maps, hotel guides, and tickets for popular attractions. While the VVV exists in cities for carless tourists, most of the VVV offices in rural towns also have ANWB driving information as well. Please see my page about the VVV and ANWB . The books are often in Dutch, but they still contain useful information, especially for me because I can read some Dutch.
Trains only stop in larger towns and cities.
For example, to visit Noordwijk you take the train to Leiden. Then you take a bus the rest of the trip. This may be OK once or twice, but it gets old fast as you while away your valuable time in Europe seeing all the bus stops along the way to your destination. The other problem with using public transportation is that trains and buses stop where they want to, not where you want to. If you are riding the train and you see an interesting tower or windmill off in the distance, you can only snap a cheap train-window photo.