Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

King Carlos IV laid the first stone during construction of this chapel.

A window into a long-lost world, these colorful tiles advertise a long-defunct range of purgative teas, harmless smokables, and diarrhea cures.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

This enigmatic artifact is a rare depiction of an ancient Iberian noblewoman.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

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.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.