Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

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

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

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

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

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

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

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

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

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The remains of Uruguayan hero José Artigas lie beneath a monument in Montevideo’s main square.