Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.

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

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

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 beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.