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

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

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

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

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.

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

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

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

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

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

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.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A unique showroom for bathroom fixtures featuring a giant toilet observation deck.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.