Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Stroll among dozens of statues depicting pre-Columbian kings, gods, and supernatural beings.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.