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Hand of Druon Antigoon

Antwerp, Belgium

Hand of Druon Antigoon

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

The streets of Geel, Belgium.

Geel, Belgium

Geel, Belgium

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

View from above, on the entrance and driveway

Houyet, Belgium

Halte Royal d'Ardenne

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

Nike Laakdal Wind Park. (Panoramio)

Laakdal, Belgium

Nike Laakdal Wind Park

Six turbines towering over a wide road for passersby.

Power Plant IM
Permanently Closed

Charleroi, Belgium

Power Plant IM

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Sanatorium du Basil
Permanently Closed

Stoumont, Belgium

Sanatorium du Basil

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

 Park of the Sleepless (El Parque de los Desvelados)

Estella, Spain

Park of the Sleepless (El Parque de los Desvelados)

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Domed towers with the torre in the middle.

Loriga, Portugal

Torre da Estrela

This tower once served as a radar station during the Cold War.

The Basin of the Fórnea

Alcaria, Portugal

Fórnea de Porto de Mós

A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.

Glacial valley

Loriga, Portugal

Covão da Ametade

A glacial valley filled with silver beech trees in the mountains of Portugal.

The verdant convent is enchantingly haunting.

Colares, Portugal

Convent of the Capuchos

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

Misalera Bridge.

Montalegre, Portugal

Ponte da Misarela (Misalera Bridge)

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

Opening to a cave at Boca do Inferno.

Cascais, Portugal

Boca do Inferno

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Quinta da Regaleira

Sintra, Portugal

Quinta da Regaleira

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Sedlec Ossuary

Kutna Hora, Czechia

Sedlec Ossuary ‘Bone Church’

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Schedelhof
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Herentals, Belgium

Schedelhof

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

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