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

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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

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

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

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

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

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

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

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

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

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

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

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

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.