Not many people know about the strange Eben-Ezer tower in Liège province. A rough track leads up to an enigmatic flint tower above the village of Bassenge. Even before you arrive, you see its four enormous Biblical animals perched on the roof.
This eccentric tower was built in the 1960s by local quarry worker Robert Garcet using discarded rubble. He based the design on obscure religious ideas and mystical measurements. It now contains a rather forgotten private museum with small rooms on five floors filled with fossils, flint objects, skeletons and photographs.
The woods around the tower are dotted with odd sculptures hidden among the trees. But there is no trace of the seven-million-year-old village Garcet once claimed to have discovered buried under his tower.
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