Brussels, Belgium
Musée des Arbalétriers (Museum of Crossbowmen)
This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.
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Brussels, Belgium
This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.
Maldegem, Belgium
A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Antwerp, Belgium
This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.
Sint-Truiden, Belgium
This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.
Bruges, Belgium
This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.
Genk, Belgium
What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.
Brussels, 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.
Mons, Belgium
Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Bruges, Belgium
Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.
Kemzeke, Belgium
A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.
Ostend, Belgium
The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.
Sankt Vith, Belgium
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
Antwerp, Belgium
To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”
Leuven, Belgium
A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.
Brussels, Belgium
Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.
Binche, Belgium
The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.
Antwerp, Belgium
This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.
Brussels, Belgium
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
Bruges, Belgium
Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.
Genk, Belgium
This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.
Raeren, Belgium
This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.