Brussels, Belgium
Musée de la Médecine
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
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Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Ypres, Belgium
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Bruges, Belgium
A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.
Lo-Reninge, Belgium
A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Heuvelland, Belgium
A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Leuven, Belgium
The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Liège, Belgium
This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.
Chaudfontaine, Belgium
Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.
Blegny, Belgium
Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.
Remouchamps, Belgium
Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.
Raeren, Belgium
This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.
Waimes, Belgium
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Magdeburg, Germany
The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."
Brunswick, Germany
Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.
Brunswick, Germany
This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."
Quedlinburg, Germany
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.
Sankt Andreasberg, Germany
Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."
Göttingen, Germany
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.