Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

This non-profit theatre in the heart of Brussels is dedicated to hosting independent films.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

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

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

The exorbitant price of paradise.

A narrow, serpentine spit of sand is constantly eroded and rebuilt by competing currents.