Brussels, Belgium
Le Cercueil (The Coffin)
The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.
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Brussels, Belgium
The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
Brussels, Belgium
Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Lille, France
Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.
Lille, France
This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.
Lille, France
An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.
Lille, France
This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.
Lille, France
This monumental mural crafted nearly 40 years ago is still in perfect condition.
Douai, France
This former cannon foundry and castle for the Counts of Flanders is now a public garden.
Douai, France
This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Amiens, France
A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.
Tournai, Belgium
After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.
Cologne, Germany
How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?
Dresden, Germany
The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Bonn, Germany
A pair of giant stone heads represent the ancient Roman saints beheaded here.
Berlin, Germany
This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Blaubeuren, Germany
In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.
Ulm, Germany
The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.
Sevelen, Switzerland
The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.
Berlin, Germany
A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.
Lindau, Germany
A lakeside footbridge that records Nobel Prize laureates' names in metal silhouette.