St Bavo's Cathedral

I had to pinch myself, you know, and I took in the view.

And you must also visit St. Bavo's Cathedral.

Even if you aren't religious, the stained glass windows are beautiful and We lit candles for our family and it's a beautiful, beautiful cathedral.

And then inside it, you can see the famous painting of the mystical lamb and you can buy tickets for 12 euros, 50 cents.

It's widely considered the first major oil painting in European art, a groundbreaking work that changed how artists thought about color, light, and realism.

It sits today in St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.

But if you visit and look at the lower left panel, what you're seeing isn't a Van Eyck original.

It's actually a copy.

The figures are believed to include Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy and possibly the Van Eyck brothers themselves.

What happened to it is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in art crime history, and despite decades of investigation, nobody's been able to solve it.

On the morning of April 11th, 1934, a bell ringer arrived at St. Bavo's Cathedral to begin his daily rounds.

After a few hours, he noticed the lock on the door to the chapel had been forced open.