Places srhiannont Wants to Go

The prehistoric home of an enormous ground sloth that once roamed Patagonia

1960s modernist architecture in the form of a church and monastery at the foothills of the Andes.

A wooden crucifix that survived a catastrophic earthquake, stared down a tyrannical aristocrat, and still draws Santiago’s faithful centuries later.

What was once rural farmland owned by the Dominican Order is now an artisanal crafts market enveloped by Santiago’s urban sprawl.

The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

This secluded village in the Andean wilderness can't be accessed by road.

From maqui pisco sours to mote-mushroom risotto, the “Mapuchef” elevates endemic ingredients and celebrates Mapuche foodways.

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

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

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

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

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

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

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

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

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

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

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

This fairytale house on the shore of a Chilean Lake oozes an eclectic mix of Chilote and German Cultural heritage.