The Kenyan town where the best distance runners in the world are trained.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

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

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

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

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

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

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

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

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

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.