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

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

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

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

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

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

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

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

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.