Places Viator Wants to Go

This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

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

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

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

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

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

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

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

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

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.