15 Hidden Places in South America That Look Like Another Planet

There's a salt flat so big it's visible from space — and when it rains, it becomes a mirror of the sky. A mountain here wasn't formed — it looks painted, layer by layer. And a waterfall drops a thousand metres from a flat-topped ridge so remote it was inaccessible until 1884. This is South America. It has the driest desert on Earth, the largest salt flat on Earth, the tallest waterfall on Earth, and a single column of water that falls through a mountain. These are the fifteen places that look like they were never meant to be Earth at all — and every one has a person, a date, and a number behind it that makes it impossible to forget