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Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

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

This bike path traverses the treetops.

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.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

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

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

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

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

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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

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

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

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

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

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

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

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

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