Places DarkSideoftheFork Wants to Go

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

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

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

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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.

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

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

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

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