Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

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.

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

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

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

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

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

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

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

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

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

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