Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The first woman to become a member of the parliament of Iceland.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

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

A natural waterslide in Brazil’s most expansive national park.

This peak in Chapada Diamantina National Park offers the most stunning sunsets.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

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

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

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.

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 sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

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

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.