Places obstakel Wants to Go

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

The European equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame is slowly spreading over the entire city.

An icon of International Style architecture on the outskirts of Rotterdam.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

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

The place where houses are born.

Most complete collection of Gymnosperms in the world.

Dutch woodpile home in the forest.

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

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

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

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.