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I am making up some sentence out of my head. But I am not sure which one is correct or natural.

You don't need to look for some place where nobody is.
You don't need to look for some place where there is nobody.

and, Can I exchange "nobody" with "none/no one"?

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    I suppose in theory it's "grammatical", but in practice nobody would ever use your first version, and probably only poets would think of including none in any contexts like this. But no-one / nobody is really just a stylistic choice - they're effectively equivalent and interchangeable in almost all contexts. Actually, even your second version isn't particularly likely - it would be more common to refer to some uninhabited / deserted / desolate place, or some place nobody goes (where where is optional).
    – FumbleFingers
    Jul 25, 2017 at 14:58
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    Idiomatically, we seem to prefer to place the negation in the copula rather than in the complement, e.g.: "You don't need to look for some place where there isn't anybody".
    – P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica
    Jul 25, 2017 at 21:33

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