A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

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

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

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

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

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

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

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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

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

A rotating nine-course menu offers delicious deep-dives into the foodways of Chilean agricultural valleys.

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

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

A surprisingly detailed model of the world's most powerful radio telescope.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

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

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.