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

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

A garden of flying flowers.

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

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.

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

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

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

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

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

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

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

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

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

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.