Places mattysmarket Wants to Go

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

The deepest metro station in the world.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."