A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.

The last Oostende trawler to fish off Iceland is now a museum.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

From motorcycles to firetrucks and sports cars to horse-drawn carriages, this Belgian collection goes beyond rare cars.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.