quiet

Actually the world's quietest place is reported to be in Minneapolis, MN. An underground anechoic chamber built for testing where I hope to visit some day. They say it's a freaky experience to be down there.
 
There is/was an anechoic chamber a few miles from my house. I have been in it many times. An audio recording studio rented the space and used it as a sound booth to record voice overs. It was built to test the sounds made by weaving machines, I think. Quietest place I've ever been. Freaky, yes!
 
I'm thinking more of natural places. I remember being above the tree line in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, decades ago. It was amazingly quiet. Couldn't hear a bird, no buzzing of insects, no wind noise. Just completely still and silent. I just sat on a big rock listening to the silence and watched a completely still mountain side. I have no idea how long I sat there.

The referenced study just made me think about it.
 
I stopped at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Utah once. I pull in blaring music, and then I shut the car off and it was like I was in another world. I was the only customer there, and my footsteps were like canon shots, it was so quiet. It was the strangest sensation.
 
Back in the 90's, I was in the mountains of Bolivia around 12k feet, I could have had the boom 10 feet away w/o serious issue.
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My vote, within my limited travel, is the desert southwest in California north of Yuma. Where we vacation there, it will be unnaturally quiet, then the Blue Angels will do a flyover at about a thousand feet. Wow! Then, back to silence.
 
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