The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

This interactive sculpture allows visitors to leave a message in case a friend passes by.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

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

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

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

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

This bell tower is the only one of its kind in the Netherlands and was a symbol of prestige.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

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

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

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

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

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.