Hauts-de-France Canadian National Vimy Memorial The two 30-metre-high pylons of the Canadian War Memorial in Vimy, France, commemorate Canadian soldiers who died during World War I.
West Flanders The Brooding Soldier A sculpted soldier guards the Canadian Forces Memorial near the hamlet of St Julian in Langemarck-Poelkapelle since 1922.
West Flanders Berlin The Grieving Parents in Vladslo German soldier Peter Kollwitz was not yet 18 years old when he was killed on 23 October 1914 while attempting to cross the Yser near Diksmuide.
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.
Liège An Ode to John Cockerill John Cockerill (and the rest of his family) propelled Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia and France into the era of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. A few decades after Cockerill's death, a monument honoring the 'father of the workers' was unveiled in the streets of Seraing.
Liège Traces of the Cockerill family in Spa The Cockerill family's tomb in the Spa cemetery pales into insignificance compared to the monument that adorned the family grave for a century.
Berlin Forgotten GDR monument Ernst Thälmann Victorious look, fist in the air and a waving flag decorated with a hammer and sickle: the bronze bust for the communist leader Ernst Thälmann survived the fall of the GDR.
Germany Lonely Lenin in Wünsdorf Until 1994, Wünsdorf, East Germany, was the headquarters of the Russian army during the Cold War. In front of the officer's residence, a statue of Lenin looks out over the overgrown parade square.
Berlin Lenin's head April 19, 1970. Almost 100 years after Lenin's birth, the GDR regime unveils a monument in honor of the Russian leader on Leninplatz in East Berlin.
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.