Dark Tourism

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.

A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.

In the valley of the River Thyle, a group of monks came together in 1146 to build the Villers Abbey.

With its 17 bunkers linked together, the fortress of Eben-Emael was considered impregnable—or so the Belgian army thought.

A 33-kilometre-long canal zigzags from Stabroek to the Albert Canal in Antwerp. What at first glance looks like a strip of nature was initially intended to hold up German tanks.

More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.