Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

Largest monument in Colombia depicts 14 lancers who drove back an army.

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.