The video reveals the journey your bag takes between the check-in desk and luggage carousel

You check in to your flight, hand off your bags, most of your possessions for the next week inside, to a stranger whose face may or may not be one that you would trust even with someone else's bags. It's a tense moment, a leap of faith travelers take with every flight. Once those bags slip behind the rubber flaps, you just have to hope they don't wind up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Alabama, where smart shoppers can buy your stuff. When you finally are reunited with your luggage at the baggage claim, you probably take it for granted, never considering the journey your bag goes on to meet you at the luggage carousel.

But the folks at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport thought you would like to see what happens. So they attached a camera to a bag and sent it on its way. The footage is hypnotic. Escher-like catacombs of conveyors send the bag on an heroic journey that would make Joseph Campbell proud. After countless routs, intersections and vertiginous elevators, the bag ends up in the nurturing hands claws of MUM (Mechanical Unloading Module) to be settled into containers.

And I thought there was just a guy back there with a hand truck.