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

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

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

This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.