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What at first glance appears to be a forgotten industrial remnant turns out, on closer inspection, to tell a rich story about the agro-industry along the Scheldt river in Belgium.

An idyllic little park on the banks of the Scheldt gives no hint that you are standing next to one of the most heavily polluted industrial sites in Flanders.

Since 2023, a shunting locomotive from the NMBS (Belgian National Railways) has stood proudly at the entrance to Ougrée's new city boulevard. Its location was no coincidence. 

In a green oasis along the Rupel River, a concrete elevated walkway rises, seemingly leading nowhere, yet it still holds quite a story.

A German fire control post overlooking the beach at Bredene serves as a reminder of the large-scale defensive works of the Second World War.

The neo-Gothic station building of Binche today forms the impressive terminus of a railway line that once continued all the way to the border station of Erquelinnes.

In the early 1960s, a brutalist observatory rose from the ground on an expansive polder in Utrecht. From March 1964 onwards, students and astronomers could climb the so-called Star Tower to gaze at the sky.

Did industrialist Évence-Narcisse Coppée II restart his coke factory in 1915 to supply benzol to the German occupier? That question was at the heart of a lawsuit against Coppée in which his coke factory played the leading role.

When the Dutch king William I took the reins of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, a merger of Belgium and the Netherlands, he began constructing canals.

From the 18th century onward, the French Vosges developed into a centre of the wool, linen, and cotton industries. Mountain streams powered watermills and provided the much-needed water for washing, dyeing, and bleaching fabrics.