A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

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

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

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

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

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.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

This small gallery nestled inside an old botanical glasshouse is a quiet place to enjoy art and nature.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.