Places ElisePoulain Wants to Go

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

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

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

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

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.