Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

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

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

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

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

The European equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame is slowly spreading over the entire city.

An icon of International Style architecture on the outskirts of Rotterdam.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

From afar it looks like someone's hat blew into the water, but closer inspection reveals a giant floating sculpture.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

A giant yellow phallus sculpture hidden in the gardens of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.