Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

From maqui pisco sours to mote-mushroom risotto, the “Mapuchef” elevates endemic ingredients and celebrates Mapuche foodways.

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

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

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

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

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

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

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

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

This fairytale house on the shore of a Chilean Lake oozes an eclectic mix of Chilote and German Cultural heritage.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

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

The southernmost postal office in South America.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

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