Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

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

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

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

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

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

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

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

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

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

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

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

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

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

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

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

An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.