Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

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

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

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

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

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

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.

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

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

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

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

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

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.