Genga, Italy
Temple of Valadier
This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.
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Genga, Italy
This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Italy
The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.
Kanazawa, Japan
Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
Antofagasta, Chile
Giant fake rocks that shielded Bond lie in wait for their next action scene.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.
Santiago, Chile
It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.
Punta Arenas, Chile
An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.
Concepción, Chile
The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.
Valdivia, Chile
A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.
Valparaiso, Chile
Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.
Castro, Chile
Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.
Villa Baviera, Chile
Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.
Arica, Chile
Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.
Concepción, Chile
Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.
Valparaiso, Chile
This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.
Valparaiso, Chile
Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.
Santiago, Chile
Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.
Natales, Chile
An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The world's most remote airport.
Rapa Nui, Chile
In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.
Chonchi, Chile
A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.
Santiago, Chile
This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.