Places abbylynn Wants to Go

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.