This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

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

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

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

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

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

Take a hike to this unique rock formation formed by lava flows.