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

This 18th-century tower is locally iconic.

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

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

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.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

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.

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

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

A cemetery dedicated to the mountaineers who perished climbing Mount Aconcagua.

These egg-shaped buildings constructed by Jesuits house a quaint museum in the Andes.

An intriguing antique iron Ferris wheel that most locals are sure was designed by Gustave Eiffel.

Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.