You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

A garden of flying flowers.

The birthplace of the titular coat and related products celebrates its claim to fame with a statue of a coat.

A tiny metropolis resides inside this student housing complex.

Six turbines towering over a wide road for passersby.

The tallest church in Mechelen might have been the tallest in the world if not for a lack of funds.

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

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

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

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

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

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.