South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

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

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

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

This fairytale house on the shore of a Chilean Lake oozes an eclectic mix of Chilote and German Cultural heritage.

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

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

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

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

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

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

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

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

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

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

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

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