Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Melusina Statue
This magenta statue commemorates the legendary marriage between a mermaid and the city's founder.
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg
This magenta statue commemorates the legendary marriage between a mermaid and the city's founder.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Statues of a fire-breather, a clown, and a whole performing troupe celebrate Luxembourg's creative side.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Ghent, Belgium
An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Ghent, Belgium
This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.
Brussels, Belgium
When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.
Bruges, Belgium
A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.
Bruges, Belgium
You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.
Bruges, Belgium
The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.
Bruges, Belgium
A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Bruges, Belgium
The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.
Antwerp, Belgium
This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.
Antwerp, Belgium
This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Antwerp, Belgium
The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.
Antwerp, Belgium
Hidden along this old street in Antwerp is a surreal monument of a bronze arm sprouting four hands.
Antwerp, Belgium
A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerpโs main square.
Antwerp, Belgium
This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.
Antwerp, Belgium
Rare wooden escalators lead deep down intoย an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.
Antwerp, Belgium
Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.