Places Clur Wants to Go

This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

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

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

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

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

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

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

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

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

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

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

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

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

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

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.

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