Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

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

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

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

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

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

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

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

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.