Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

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

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

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

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

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

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

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

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

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

A massive explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings in the city of Leiden is remembered by a waterside plaque.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.