Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

A garden of flying flowers.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

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

This bike path traverses the treetops.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

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

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 once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

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

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This hillside village by the sea has been revitalized by street art.