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The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

What was once rural farmland owned by the Dominican Order is now an artisanal crafts market enveloped by Santiago’s urban sprawl.

Instead of using billboards, some people here relay their messages on the side of a mountain.

The antique vehicle is a preserved relic of Chile's nitrate mining industry.

From maqui pisco sours to mote-mushroom risotto, the “Mapuchef” elevates endemic ingredients and celebrates Mapuche foodways.

This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.

A rotating nine-course menu offers delicious deep-dives into the foodways of Chilean agricultural valleys.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

In a corner of Santiago's largest market, this inventive Mapuche eatery shows "ancestral cuisine" doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.

This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

This fairytale house on the shore of a Chilean Lake oozes an eclectic mix of Chilote and German Cultural heritage.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

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

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

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

How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

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