A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

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

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

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

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

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

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

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

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

One family's mission to exemplify sustainability took on a whole new life as a surprisingly beautiful home.

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

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

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

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

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

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

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