Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

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

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

This extremely remote border crossing was closed to prevent smuggling and looting.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This dragon-shaped sports arena is the world’s largest solar-powered stadium.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

"All Mountains - All The Time."

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.