This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

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

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

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

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

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

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

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.