This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

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

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

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

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

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

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

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

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