This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

Six turbines towering over a wide road for passersby.

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

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

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

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

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

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

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.