San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Meteorite Museum (Museo del Meteorito)
A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.
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San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.
Santiago, Chile
This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.
Valparaiso, Chile
What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
La Paz, Bolivia
Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.
La Paz, Bolivia
The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Monte Albán, Mexico
These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.
Chumkopó, Mexico
A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.
Valladolid, Mexico
If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.
Palenque, Mexico
An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Mexico City, Mexico
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Koror, Palau
An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.
Micronesia
Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.