Places REvans Wants to Go

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

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.

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

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

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

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.