Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

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

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

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

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.