Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

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

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

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

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

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

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

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

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

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.