Places niveaumatthieu Wants to Go

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

These two strange cones are actually a system of old nautical navigation beacons.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

This abandoned office building is a lasting example of Soviet-era architecture.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

Once a year, local students "clean" this statue with a champagne shower.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.