An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

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

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

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

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

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

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

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