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

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

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

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

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.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

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.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

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

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

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

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

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

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.