Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

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

This bike path traverses the treetops.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

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

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

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

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