OMG.
This one was truly evil.
Thank god I read this.
A person could have gone mad looking for that in Europe!
I’m not sure vsotvep should be allowed to ever set one of these again…
… thinks. Was that an April Fools joke? Very amusing.
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Good job! 
I also put in a hint: there are hills viisible on the right; there are no hills like that in the Netherlands.
Also, it’s winter in the photo, but the sun is way too high for a winter sun in the Netherlands
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I take my hat off to vsotvep, the master geo-challenge setter. I can’t top his geniusly devised challenges, but here’s something at least slightly different …
… a break from staring at building images and paddling around canals 
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This reminds me of my days playing cities skylines: doing research about interchanges.
Spaghetti junction, Birmingham.
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Been looking for the ‘onsen’ but…
I’ve been looking for a matching guard rail and coming up empty.
I’m always willing to give cred when cred is due… Vsotvep is good at this ol’ game.
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Oh, it’s explained on the Internet. Apparently the Germans basically have surveillance PTSD for obvious reasons.
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It’s not an onsen, with more than 80ºC I wouldn’t want to jump into this lake… Although there are bathhouses in the vicinity, naturally.
Hint 1
Don’t bother translating the sign, but do bother studying it: they can tell you something about the location.
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Also, special bonus round for @Eugene:
If that one also is not Utrecht I might hunt you down and kill you 
I should have the skills to find you now
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The signs are only Hanzi and the whole thing looks more like a geysir. Now, where are the geysirs in China, and if you fall into one, do you transform into a panda until you apply cold water?
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I did notice that a lot of these places have black and white signs. I found an image of one with green signs like this and … lost it! I literally can’t retrace my steps to that picture!
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(this shouldn’t be possible, should it?!)
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ok, let’s try this. This is the best photo I have ever taken and it has been my desktop image for years.
Hint1
You need to think what it is we are seeing down there. Fields? The sea ? Is it really flat or is it mist?
Hint2
The beaches underneath those mountains on the background are the most “touristic” place in Greece, amongst Greeks (so, not Mykonos )
Hint3
There are no islands in the picture, so you have 6000+ less places to worry about
Hint4
No, I was not in a prison camp
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Great photo! Technically the rules are that we have photos from Google Maps, but let’s do this lovely one! But just checking: can we get close to this vantage point in street view?
And
When you say there are no islands - does that include the foreground? We’re not standing on an island?
Technically the rules are that we have photos from Google Maps
Oops, I missed that part, but it is right there on the first post. 
Yes, indeed, you can have that view from google maps, I just checked, though google’s pic was definitely not at the exact same time and weather (you cannot even see the mountains - they are 70km away actually - another hint) and I had around 3-4 meters elevation from the road (the main road is behind the chain fence, 3 meters below)
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