Places jlswifty Wants to Go

This diner from 1930s America now resides in a small town in the Netherlands.

Widely advertised as Amsterdam’s narrowest street, this passage was once a highlight of the Red Light District before its windows closed.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

At the base of this tower, a plaque marks the original center point of the Netherlands.

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

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

At this barrel organ museum, history and live concert keep Dutch street organ culture alive.

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

For years, the remains of this ancient Roman fortress were hidden under an orchard.

The house of physicists Paul Ehrenfest was also a temporary dwelling and study for his good friend Albert Einstein.

The remains of a medieval wall discovered in the basement of a jewelry store.

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

It's forbidden to dig within this ancient Roman fort hidden beneath a playground.

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

A large measuring stick marks the lowest point of a country that is partially under sea level.

Once housed in the towers of this Gothic church, this 17th century clock still ticks today.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

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

This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.

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.

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

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.