The last Oostende trawler to fish off Iceland is now a museum.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

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

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.