Places johnw404 Wants to Go

Its collection commemorates the author of the iconic children's book "Heidi."

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

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

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

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

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

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

Dedicated to the untimely death of American balloonist and parachutist.

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

Rent a barrel for a personal view of where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga.

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

A stained-glass window from the 15th century offers a vision of the end of the world.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The preserved left hand of a saint once known as "the Pearl of York."

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.