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

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

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

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

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 Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

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.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

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

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

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

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

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

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

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.