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A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This stately palace, first built in the 16th century, was converted into a prison in 1830.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

The house where Harlequin was born.

A statue of the beloved storybook character stands in front of the building in which her creator was born.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A surrealist labyrinth and museum of contemporary sculptures.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."