This medieval castle in the middle of Ghent was once used as a prison, where those locked up were subjected to various methods of torture to confess to their crimes. Travel Darkly visits the castle's torture museum for thumb screws, stretching racks and unhappy dioramas...
Set in the oldest psychiatric hospital in Belgium, this tranquil museum charts the history of mental health, its treatment and attitudes towards it both in the past and today...
200 years after the Battle of Waterloo more than 5,000 historical reenactors set up camp around the original battlefield where they then put on a very smokey show. Travel Darkly met seven of them...
In a quiet rural cemetery on the outskirts of Mons in Belgium lies the body of Private John Parr, who at just seventeen years old became the first British casualty of the WWI. Travel Darkly went to pay their respects...