Places joparkman Wants to Go

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.

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

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

The world's most remote airport.

This secluded village in the Andean wilderness can't be accessed by road.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

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

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

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

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

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

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

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.

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

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

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

One of the oldest colonial buildings still standing in South America.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

This colossal structure and its accompanying angel often play tricks on the eyes.