Places Vladski Wants to Go

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Death road of Bolivia.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

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

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

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

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

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.