The purpose of this article is to describe simple ways to construct quadratic number fields each having an unramified extension which properly contains the Hilbert class field of its genus field (in the wide sense). The motivation of this study is the author’s observation that under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH), for most quadratic number fields of small conductors, their maximal unramified extensions coincide with the Hilbert class fields of their genus fields. More precisely, under GRH, among the 305 imaginary quadratic number fields with discriminants larger than —1000, at most 16 fields are exceptional [39], [40], and among the 1690 real quadratic number fields with discriminants less than or equal to 5565, only 4 fields are exceptional [41].