Places R Sevens Wants to Go

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

The prehistoric home of an enormous ground sloth that once roamed Patagonia

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

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

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

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

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

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.

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

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

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

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

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

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

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.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

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