It's also possible to buy discounted train tickets from Brussels-Midi station. Mini-Europe's opening hours vary depending on the season (it usually closes each year from early January to early March).

Brussels, like any city, has its share of tourist traps, and I set out to visit two of them—Atomium and Mini-Europe. Atomium, a massive iron crystal structure from the 1958 World Fair, offers a ...

whose permanent exhibition retraces the history of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, for which it was built. Nearby the Atomium is Mini-Europe, a park featuring more than 350 scale models of famous ...