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

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

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

What is the Thing?

An urban laboratory.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.