Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

The place where houses are born.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

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

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

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

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.