Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.