Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

A rare double mill nestled along the banks of the Aa river.

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

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

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

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

An ingenious Dutch land art project uses grass ridges to cut airport noise pollution in half.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

Where lovers tie birch branches into long-lived knots.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

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

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.