Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Illustrated on a Chilean hillside known as Cerro Unitas and surrounded by ...

The proposed observatory will also search for the molecular building blocks of life in deep space.

The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert have baffled scientists who are scratching their heads about where they've come from. Geoglyphs are a type of land art, occasionally rock art, found ...

The rugged terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert is etched with giant images of llamas, cats, fish, birds, and humans. Together, the geoglyphs recall a time when the barren expanse of sand and rock was a ...

Water sustains life, but where do you harvest it if you live in the driest desert on Earth? Look to the clouds. “Fog catchers” are revolutionizing the way of life in Atacama Desert — an extremely ...

Millions of years ago – where the perpetual ice of Antarctica and the dry dust of the Atacama Desert today stretch – lush forests flourished, full of araucaria trees, giant ferns, and vegetation that ...