Places ckoohle Wants to Go

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

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

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

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

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

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

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.