Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.