What Happens When A Country Decides Your Town Needs To Be Destroyed?

Doel. That is all. Nah it's not really - there's a tiny Belgian village squashed between the Port of Antwerp and the Dutch border that has basically been in the way of every major public works project in the region for like... 100 years. But while all other villages around it have been destroyed, and the town itself having been earmarked for demolition time and time again, Doel has somehow remained. But how? And why? I travelled to this strange little town to find out. ------------ Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of. Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about... until now. Like and subscribe and all that. Follow me on IG at @WhatOnEarthIsThis CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:35 old history 02:58 newer history innit 04:00 Oh no Doel 05:32 Genuinely what is going on 07:25 fun times in the 80s 08:54 Squat away 09:38 Demolitions begin 10:09 The courts save the day 11:50 The situation today 13:08 Rambly nonsense