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Amsterdam

Netherlands · 25 quests

History

3 quests
Royal Palace, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Royal Palace
A city hall became a royal home
Anne Frank House, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Anne Frank House
Hidden rooms held a family and four others
Attic Church, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Attic Church
Three attic floors conceal a full church

Nature

4 quests
Westerpark, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Westerpark
Old gasworks buildings sit among its lawns
Sloterplas, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Sloterplas
Sand from its basin helped build nearby homes
Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Hortus Botanicus
Its age reaches far beyond Amsterdam
Vondelpark, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Vondelpark
Its first name was simply New Park

Art

5 quests
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum
A million objects sit behind just 8,000 on show
Cat Cabinet, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Cat Cabinet
Paintings share the rooms with living cats
Stedelijk, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Stedelijk
Its white wing looks like a giant bathtub
Het Schip, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Het Schip
Why does a workers’ block have a brick prow?
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
The world’s largest Van Gogh collection is here

Food

6 quests
Stamppot, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Stamppot
The greens disappear into mashed potatoes
Jenever, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Jenever
Modern gin grew from this juniper drink
Draadjesvlees, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Draadjesvlees
Its name hints at meat that falls apart
Pea Soup, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Pea Soup
Its color depends on the pea variety
Cheese Omelette, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Cheese Omelette
This omelette takes up more room than expected
Stamppot, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Stamppot
The dish is named after the pot, not the food

Sport

2 quests
Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Olympic Stadium
Its tower held the first Olympic flame
Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Johan Cruijff Arena
The roof opens above a grass pitch

Party

5 quests
Hill Street Blues, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Hill Street Blues
What turns a longtime bar into a walk-in artwork?
Paradiso, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Paradiso
Stained glass still hangs above the stage
De Heeren Van Aemstel, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
De Heeren Van Aemstel
Live music keeps the local crowd in the room
Door 74, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Door 74
The bar begins before the first drink
Ruigoord, Amsterdam🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Ruigoord
The dance floor is an old village church

Netherlands

Photo quests in Amsterdam

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Amsterdam holds 25 quests across six categories, led by Food with six — though only just, with five in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in Amsterdam so far is Beach.

Four of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 21 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers twelve of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Amsterdam quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The four quests in Amsterdam the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Amsterdam

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Amsterdam

How many photo quests are there in Amsterdam?
25, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (6), Art (5) and Party (5). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Royal Palace, Westerpark and Rijksmuseum.
What is there to do in Amsterdam beyond the obvious?
4 of the 25 quests in Amsterdam are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Amsterdam holds four at tier 1, nine at tier 2 and 12 at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Cat Cabinet, Hill Street Blues, Jenever and Pea Soup, which fall under Art, Food and Party.
Can you do all the Amsterdam quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 25 is 11 km from the middle of the Amsterdam list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Amsterdam quests can you do for free?
21 of the 25 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 25 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Amsterdam means four quests: Cat Cabinet, Hill Street Blues, Jenever and Pea Soup.
How do I prove I visited a place in Amsterdam?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Amsterdam is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Royal Palace fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Amsterdam sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.