The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

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

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

A piece of the front end of a British cruiser that was used as a block ship in World War I.

A small statue commemorates a centuries-old event that still hangs over the people of Leuven.

A tiny metropolis resides inside this student housing complex.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

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

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

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

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

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

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

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

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.