A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

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

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

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

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

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.