El Cabo

Want to really get away? Stay at this offbeat guesthouse or rent simple stone cottages from the original settlement, artfully restored with recycled and repurposed materials. Budget travelers can stay in cool retro-style buses, or camp alongside a former military bunker, now a quincho, with sheltered cooking facilities for campers.

Reservations can be slow to arrange as there's no on-site cell-phone service or wi-fi.