Le Roeulx, Belgium
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.
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Antwerp, Belgium
Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing
Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
Borders of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Brussels, Belgium
Manneken Pis
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Brussels, Belgium
Mini-Europe
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Liège, Belgium
The Lucifer of Liège
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Brussels, Belgium
The Atomium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Bassenge, Belgium
Tower of Eben-Ezer
A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Dusseldorf, Germany
Rheinturm
This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.
Detmold, Germany
Hermannsdenkmal
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Laboe, Germany
Laboe Naval Memorial
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
Lübeck, Germany
The Broken Bells of St. Mary's
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Xanten, Germany
Xanten Archaeological Park
Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.
Bremen, Germany
House of the Glockenspiel
Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.
Hamburg, Germany
Herbertstraße
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Bremerhaven, Germany
Wilhelm Bauer
The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.
Munich, Germany
The Relics of Munich Residenz
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Cologne, Germany
St. Petersglocke
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Lübeck, Germany
The Devil's Stone
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Essen, Germany
Zollverein
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Munich, Germany
Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor
This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.
Chiemsee, Germany
Herrenchiemsee Neues Schloss
Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.
Munich, Germany
Eisbachwelle
Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.
