50 Abandoned Hotels That Are Frozen in Time

49. Hotel Palácio de Sal – Bolivia

This surreal salt-block hotel near Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni was once a novelty, drawing adventurous travelers to sleep inside a building made entirely of salt. But over time, exposure to humidity, lack of modern plumbing, and structural concerns made the original site unsustainable. The hotel was abandoned in the early 2000s and replaced by a newer version closer to town. The old one now sits like a sun-bleached mirage in the salt flats—crumbling quietly, its salty walls eroding back into the earth. There are no curtains here, only wind. It is both sculpture and skeleton, vanishing grain by grain.