Places smejdole Wants to Go

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

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

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

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

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

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

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

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

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.

Massive rock sculptures formed during the time of the dinosaurs still stand undisturbed.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.