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Since the 1700s, this old barrel has acted as a post box that relies on the kindness of travelers.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

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

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

This 18th-century tower is locally iconic.

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

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

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

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

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

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

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

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

A wooden crucifix that survived a catastrophic earthquake, stared down a tyrannical aristocrat, and still draws Santiago’s faithful centuries later.

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