The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

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

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

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.