Places deriverative Wants to Go

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

A chilly monument dedicated to the French explorer, Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

Quite possibly the most isolated bus stop on Earth.

This pier made of ice and constructed over the Antarctic winter is used when the resupply cargo ships arrive in summer.

A vertical tube that allows you to see what's going on underneath the Antarctic sea ice.

This uniquely shaped slab of volcanic rock has been used by generations of Antarctic explorers.