Places wittc2 Wants to Go

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

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

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

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

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

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

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

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

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

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

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.