A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

This non-profit theatre in the heart of Brussels is dedicated to hosting independent films.

This collection of lurid religious statues tell the tales of a saint who stood down the devil.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

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

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

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

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

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

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

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

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.