This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

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

Instead of using billboards, some people here relay their messages on the side of a mountain.

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

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

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

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

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

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

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.