Brazil
Viaduct Petrobras
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
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Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.
Vila de São Jorge, Brazil
These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Parnamirim, Brazil
You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.
Macha, Bolivia
A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.
El Alto, Bolivia
This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.
San Javier, Bolivia
This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.
La Paz, Bolivia
A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.
Bolivia
Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Oruro, Bolivia
This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.
Sajama, Bolivia
A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.
Copacabana, Bolivia
An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.
La Paz, Bolivia
The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.
La Paz, Bolivia
Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.
Colchani, Bolivia
This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.
La Paz, Bolivia
The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.
Comunidad Challapampa, Bolivia
Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.
La Paz, Bolivia
In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.
Bolivia
This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.