Places bystrov Wants to Go

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

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

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

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

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

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

In the Netherlands, one of the world's largest private car collections can be found.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

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

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

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

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

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

The place where houses are born.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

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

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

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.