This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

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

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

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

This wonderful rock formation constitutes the first geopark in Uruguay.

The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

A surprisingly detailed model of the world's most powerful radio telescope.

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

This 18th-century tower is locally iconic.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

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

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

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