A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

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

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

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

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

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

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

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

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

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

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

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

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Artwork tucked within the trees greets visitors with surreal sonic experiences.

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

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.