A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

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

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

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

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

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

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

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

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

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

A garden of flying flowers.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.