Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

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

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

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

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

The place where houses are born.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

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

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

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

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

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

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

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.

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