A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

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

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

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

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

This bike path traverses the treetops.

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

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Kolkata’s only Portuguese church has a curious link with chickens.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.