Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

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

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

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

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

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

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

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

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

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

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.

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

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

Artwork tucked within the trees greets visitors with surreal sonic experiences.

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.

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