This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

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

This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.

A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.

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

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

Take a leisurely walk through the park to find the seven giant troll sculptures hidden throughout the park.

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

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

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

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

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

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

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

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.