A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

This mountaintop mariner’s church is packed with model ships and nautical art while hosting an annual maritime festivity for the townsfolk below.

Impressive spectacle of how a bunker can land on a beach and resist mother nature for the years that have passed since WWII.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

This monumental mural crafted nearly 40 years ago is still in perfect condition.

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

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

A neighborhood with Art Deco architecture as eccentric as its history.

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

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

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

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

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.