Brussels For king and country The statue of King Leopold II on the Throne Place, Brabo in Antwerp and Manneken Pis: one by one bronze monuments cast by the "Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles."
Brussels John Cockerill Monument in the European District On the Luxemburgplein in Ixelles, you will come across the John Cockerill Monument. In 1872, a year after his statue was unveiled in Seraing, Willem Rau, Cockerill's loyal right-hand man, took the initiative to donate a statue to Brussels.
Brussels Abandoned art nouveau water tower In a remote corner of a former freight station in Brussels, called the Maritime Station, a water tower in Art Nouveau style was built to refuel steam locomotives with water.
Brussels Galleries of the Laeken Cemetery More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.
Six blast furnaces you can visit today In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.