Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.

The first crematorium in the Netherlands.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

Various sculptures are a rotating exhibit in this small town.

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

A unique World War II memorial commemorates where the American B-17 bomber Man-O-War crashed.

The only bicycle museum in the Netherlands charts the invention of the now-ubiquitous two-wheeled machine.

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

This monument pays homage to a classic Dutch tune.

This building once stood at the center of a butter war.

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

Found in the waddenzee, this propeller has been put on public display as a reminder of the Second World War.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

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

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

Only a few walls remain of the last church the Pilgrims used before they sailed to North America.

A plaque hidden in the law faculty at Leiden University honors the first scientist to make liquid helium.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

The largest collection of the iconic wooden shoe in the world.

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

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.

A farm turned upside down.

The remnants of a WWI naval mine that once terrorized the country now decorates a street.