From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

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

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

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

This annual Belgian water race attracts bathtub captains from all over the world.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

The tiny Spanish village that long refused to change its outrageously anti-Semitic name.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.