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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.