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

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

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

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

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

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

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.