A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

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

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

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

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

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

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

Massive rock sculptures formed during the time of the dinosaurs still stand undisturbed.

This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.