Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

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

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

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

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.