Jardín, Colombia
Teleférico la Garrucha (Garrucha Cable Car)
Would you dare to dangle from a great height in a wooden basket?
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Jardín, Colombia
Would you dare to dangle from a great height in a wooden basket?
Bogotá, Colombia
A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
Medellín, Colombia
Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.
Bogotá, Colombia
This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.
Salento, Colombia
The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.
Medellín, Colombia
An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.
Guatape, Colombia
The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.
Cusco, Peru
Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.
Chennai, India
The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.
Amritsar, India
This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.
Dhar Lama Chung Chung, India
This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Hampi, India
The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.
Jodhpur, India
Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.
Aix-en-Provence, France
A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.