Places josinevanheek Wants to Go

This 15th century church is where the Pilgrims spent their last night in the Netherlands before setting sail for America.

A memorial commemorating the man whose name became synonymous with taking a picture in the Netherlands.

This fake airfield was built as a decoy to protect a real airport from the Allied Forces.

A bronze statue commemorating the legend of a hellhound haunting the village of De Lutte.

A wonderland of oil paintings by a self-taught artist who collaborates with Imagine Dragons—hidden in a 17th-century building near the Rembrandt House.

Every winter, this former planetarium is transformed into a massive, brightly-lit Christmas ornament.

This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

A set of beech hedges planted in the 19th century forms a tunnel that takes on a different appearance in every season.

This museum is filled with an eclectic collection of unique inventions.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

This site was constructed as a Cold War-era defense against a Russian invasion.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.