Places Mathias Van de Velde Wants to Go

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

This unconventionally beautiful landscape possesses stunning scenery you won't easily forget.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

Robot jockeys ride their humped mounts to victory as part of a 21st-century twist on an ancient desert sport.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

A mesmerizing wonderland of salt-encrusted tree branches and pencil roots.

Climb down into the largest sinkhole in Qatar.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

These natural wonders have taken millennia to form into the stunning marvels they are today.