Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

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

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

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

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

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

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

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

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

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

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

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.