This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

This 12-inch-tall wooden sculpture of a winged Virgin Mary has inspired much devotion and countless replicas.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

These subterranean models show Mexico City's central square during three different eras.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.