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Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

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

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

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Death road of Bolivia.

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

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

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

The house of a former Argentinian president stands protected within a large glass case.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.