What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

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

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.