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An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

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.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.

Named in tribute to Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young.

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

One of the last remaining covered bridges in the province of Ontario.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This gem of Moorish architecture is slowly disintegrating along the coast of this charming town.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.