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The chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a building designed from 1953 to 1955 by the architect Le Corbusier. It is erected on the site of an ancient Roman sanctuary and an old chapel rebuilt between the two wars. In 2011, around the chapel, a convent was built by the architect Renzo Piano. The site is on the UNESCO World Heritage List 2016.

Notre-Dame Cathedral is a church founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits. The church owes its current size and neo-Gothic style to a 20th century expansion. The crypt of the church contains the tombs of the grand-ducal family.

Church in the Neo-Gothic style dating from 1911. The cult of Our Lady of Lourdes is very much present in this church. On the exterior of the esplanade one immediately notices a reproduction of the grotto where the Virgin appeared to Bernadette Soubirou.

The chapel and hermitage of Notre-Dame du Scex were probably founded at the end of the 7th century. During the 17th century, the chapel was transformed. Faced with the influx of pilgrims, the religious building was not only repaired but also enlarged. The present chapel, however, dates from the 18th century, when the sacristy was rebuilt, the choir and the chapel were tiled, the entrance was paved, the fountain was repaired as well as the access road to the sanctuary, three small bells were installed. The chapel is under the jurisdiction of the abbot of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.

On the side of the hill just below the large Chevremeont basilica is this small chapel which, dating from 1688, is much older than the basilica. It was built by English Jesuits who had founded a college of philosophy and theology at Liege. Slowly this chapel has become the objective of a walk on the hillside and a site of devotion to the Virgin. It was classified in 1985 and, curiously, it is a pilgrimage site for sportsmen.

Notre-Dame de Scourmont is a Trappist abbey built in the second half of the 19th century. The priory was founded in 1850 and elevated to the rank of abbey in 1871. In 1863, a brewery was established in the abbey and in 1876, the Trappist monks began to produce hard cheese from the milk from their farm.

Built in the 13th and 14th c., one of the most refined churches of the Burgundian Gothic style watches over the medieval town in the company of a whole grotesque little world hanging from its cornices. The porch with its flamboyant pinnacles, the radiating chapels of the apse and the reliefs of the tympanum of the Porte des Bleds are remarkable, as are the interior decoration, the furniture and the stained glass windows. The large classified organs date from the 18th century.

A Gothic church, whose choir is still visible in the cemetery, has existed in Laeken since the 13th century. The old church was destroyed in 1872-3 to make way for the new church of Our Lady of Laeken, which was commissioned by Leopold I to house the remains of his wife Queen Louise-Marie of Orléans. Since then, this splendid neo-gothic church has served as a necropolis for the Belgian royal family.

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes church was built in 1949 in a modern Romanesque style. The church owes its name to the nearby Lourdes de Jette grotto, the object of many pilgrimages, particularly during the First World War. The chapel of the cave quickly became too small and the construction of a larger church was considered and then built a few hundred meters from the chapel. The church was designed by the Christian architect Chrétien Veraart and is built in brick with concrete elements. The church is now also home to a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic community, whose patron saint is Saint Volodymyr.

Built from 1145, is one of the first milestones of Gothic architecture. is its transept, each arm of which ends with an apse. This architectural choice is a short-lived experience of the builders of the first Gothic generation, imitated only for the south arm of the cathedral of Soissons.