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The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

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

An old, partly destroyed church, preserved in the state it was left in after a fire.

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

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

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

This former cigarette factory was built in a style inspired by Islamic architecture.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.

A line number in Amsterdam that will likely never be used again due to its tragic history.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

An independent cinema housed in a former pathological anatomy laboratory.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

Above the heads of passersby stands a small statue commemorating soldiers from the Boer War.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

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