Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

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

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

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

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

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

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

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

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

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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

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

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

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.