For Travel + Leisure. There’s no place better than the Atacama to look at the stars; because here, it’s like no place on earth. At 16,000 feet above sea level you can almost touch the sky; governments conduct experiments, satellites seek radiowaves and tourists turn their heads to the heavens, their shoes stained red by the soil of a martian-like landscape. In searching for other worlds, we discover the eerie allure of our own.