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Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

In a corner of Santiago's largest market, this inventive Mapuche eatery shows "ancestral cuisine" doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.

A rotating nine-course menu offers delicious deep-dives into the foodways of Chilean agricultural valleys.

The antique vehicle is a preserved relic of Chile's nitrate mining industry.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

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

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

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

How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States

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