Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

A mouldering Colombian bull ring stands as a reminder of the country's complicated relationship with a brutal sport.

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.