Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

The world's longest wildlife overpass provides Hilversum's critters with a safe alternative to trying their luck on the roadway.

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.

The Netherlands is home to a bridge printed out of reinforced concrete.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

An impressive array of unique homemade planetariums.

A tiny house showcases the busy life of a local gnome.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.