In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

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

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

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

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.

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

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

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

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

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.