Mons, Belgium
The Guardhouse Monkey
Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.
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Mons, Belgium
Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.
Knokke-Heist, Belgium
A garden of flying flowers.
Waimes, Belgium
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Ghent, Belgium
This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.
Beveren, Belgium
This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.
Leuven, Belgium
A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Brussels, Belgium
Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.
Breezanddijk, Netherlands
The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.
Lelystad, Netherlands
Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.
Hoek van Holland, Netherlands
This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.
Schokland, Netherlands
The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.
Lelystad, Netherlands
This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.
Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands
This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.
Loenen, Netherlands
The tallest waterfall in the Netherlands is a lovely, stepped feature that is only 50 feet tall.
Maastricht, Netherlands
This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.
The Hague, Netherlands
A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Maastricht, Netherlands
Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.