A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

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

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

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.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

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

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

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

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.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

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

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

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

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

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

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