The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

This unfinished sculpture, once loathed by locals, ultimately earned their affection.

The patron saint of cats founded this stunning Romanesque church in the 7th century.

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

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

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

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

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.