Places corinnapalmi Wants to Go

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

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

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

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

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

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.