antwerp centraal station
This is a great description of the Antwerp train station from Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald:
When I entered the great hall of the Centraal Station with its dome arching sixty meters high above it, my first thought, perhaps triggered by my visit to the zoo and the sight of the dromedary, was that this magnificent although then severely dilapidated foyer ought to have cages for lions and leopards let into its marble niches, and aquaria for sharks, octopuses, and crocodiles, just as some zoos, conversely, have little railway trains in which you can, so to speak, travel to the farthest corners of the earth. It was probably because of ideas like these, occurring to me almost of their own accord there in Antwerp, that the waiting room which, I know, has now been turned into a staff canteen struch me as another Nocturama, a curious confusion which may of course have been the result of the sun's sinking behind the city rooftops just as I entered the room. [...] Like the creatures in the Nocturama the rail passengers seemed to me somehow miniaturized, whether by the unusual height of the ceiling or because of the gathering dusk [...]
And so on... I love his writing.