Places Pengwn Wants to Go

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

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

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

The largest flower auction house in the world.

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

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The history and future of cannabis.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.