Tafí del Valle Department, Argentina
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Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.
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Tafí del Valle Department, Argentina
Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.
Mejillones, Chile
This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.
Villaseca, Chile
At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.
Hualqui, Chile
Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.
Natales, Chile
An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.
Rapa Nui, Chile
In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.
Valparaiso, Chile
This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.
Chonchi, Chile
A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.
Lota, Chile
The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.
Campamento Geotermico Corfo, Chile
The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.
Huara, Chile
One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.
Seattle, Washington
In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Guatemala
One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
Lares, Peru
Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.
Nazca, Peru
This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.
Quispicanchi, Peru
The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.