The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

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

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

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

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

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

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

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

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.