Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A seemingly out-of-place temple built on the spot where a mystic had a profound spiritual experience.

The largest airborne operation in history was launched to capture this bridge.

The first crematorium in the Netherlands.

A 20th-century naval quarantine center is now a local park.

The imposing structure was originally established in 1580 as a military stronghold.

These giant yellow bowling pins seem to be defying gravity.

This monument pays homage to a classic Dutch tune.

The only remaining wind-powered paper mill in the world.

An Amsterdam School landmark combining a museum and social housing.

This recreated Roman outpost stands above its buried predecessor.

One of Amsterdam’s most popular cultural and recreational complexes is on the site of a former gas works.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

How one woman gave orphaned sculptures a new home in the city of Utrecht.

Visitors can still take a train to this former train station turned museum.

A gigantic teapot sitting on top of a parking garage in the center of Utrecht.

A bronze statue commemorating the legend of a hellhound haunting the village of De Lutte.

This building once stood at the center of a butter war.

Found in the waddenzee, this propeller has been put on public display as a reminder of the Second World War.

What looks like an ordinary house from the outside is actually a rotating sculpture.

A unique World War II memorial commemorates where the American B-17 bomber Man-O-War crashed.

A plaque hidden in the law faculty at Leiden University honors the first scientist to make liquid helium.

An unexpected public exhibit showcases the diversity of Dutch street posts.

Only a few walls remain of the last church the Pilgrims used before they sailed to North America.

This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.