Places Petra Jan Wants to Go

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.