A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

Belgium’s famous peeing statue has worn many hats (and coats, and pants), which are on display at this small museum.

A tribute to smugglers and the Butter Wars.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

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

A rare double mill nestled along the banks of the Aa river.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.

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

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.