Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

"The country that ate itself."

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

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

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.