Places mattysmarket Wants to Go

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

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

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

The largest park in Lviv is surrounded by a network of disused rail tracks.