Brussels, Belgium
Musée des Arbalétriers (Museum of Crossbowmen)
This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.
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Brussels, Belgium
This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.
Maldegem, Belgium
A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.
Bruges, Belgium
This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.
Antwerp, Belgium
This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Mons, Belgium
Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.
Brussels, Belgium
Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Antwerp, Belgium
To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”
Sankt Vith, Belgium
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
Bruges, Belgium
Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.
Ostend, Belgium
The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.
Brussels, Belgium
Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.
Genk, Belgium
This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.
Brussels, Belgium
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
Bruges, Belgium
A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.
Bruges, Belgium
Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Brussels, Belgium
Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.
Antwerp, Belgium
Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.
Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium
This bike path traverses the treetops.
Brussels, Belgium
Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.
Mons, Belgium
A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.
Leuven, Belgium
The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.