Places eliasirving Wants to Go

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

An island said to shake with the current.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.