Places alessandralee Wants to Go

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

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

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

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

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

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

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

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.

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

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

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 Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.