Dark Tourism

Between 1921 and 1981, 1,750 patients of the nearby Psychiatric Hospital found their final resting place in a cemetery deep in the woods of Rekem, Belgium.

After a century, a concrete gun emplacement is all that remains of "Lange Max," the Germans' giant cannon used during the First World War.

In 1916, the German army constructed a 285-metre-long viaduct in the village of Born in just eight months.

The Frontzate, the former railway line 74 connecting Diksmuide with Nieuwpoort, suddenly played a leading role as a front line during the First World War.

On August 8, 1956, disaster struck the Bois du Cazier mine in Charleroi, Belgium. A fire broke out hundreds of meters underground, killing 262 miners.

More than a hundred years ago, on May 12, 1917, the biplane of Count Paul de Goussencourt and Lieutenant de Cubber thundered from the sky during a firefight above Kaaskerke, a small town part of Diksmuide. Both died instantly.

The Spuikom in Ostend became a military air base during the First World War. In early 1917, the German army built the Seeflugstation Flandern II to defend the port of Ostend against English attacks.

European heritage organization Europa Nostra has added the ruins of Charles of Lorraine's Palace in Mariemont to its shortlist of most endangered monuments in 2023.