About 7 km north of the city on the road to the airport, this open-air maritime museum is the work of a local enthusiast who decided, almost single-handedly, to reconstruct the most important ships in the exploration of the Strait of Magellan. The result is a small fleet of full-scale replicas you can climb aboard: Magellan's Nao Victoria, the HMS Beagle that carried Darwin through the strait in 1834, Shackleton's lifeboat James Caird, and Ancud, the 1843 schooner that established the Chilean claim to Patagonia.
It sounds like a tourist trap and isn't — the ships are obsessively researched, you can go down into the holds and up into the rigging, and the contrast in scale between Magellan's tiny 85-foot caravel and the modern container ships anchoring offshore is genuinely moving. Allow at least 90 minutes.