Ypres, Belgium
In Flanders Fields Museum
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
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Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Kemzeke, Belgium
A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.
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.
Sint-Truiden, Belgium
This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.
Genk, Belgium
This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.
Bruges, Belgium
A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.
Brussels, Belgium
Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.
Antwerp, Belgium
The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Leuven, Belgium
The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.
Heuvelland, Belgium
Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.
Brussels, Belgium
The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.
Heyd, Belgium
A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Liège, Belgium
This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.
Brussels, Belgium
When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.
Antwerp, Belgium
Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.
Ypres, Belgium
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.
Brussels, Belgium
This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Liège, Belgium
This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Genappe, Belgium
A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.