One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

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

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

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

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

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.