Places deriverative Wants to Go

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

The world's tallest slum.

This unique depiction of the Virgin Mary may be the tallest kinetic art sculpture in the world.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This iconic pavilion in Barquisimeto has a roof made from 16 “petals” that open and close depending on the weather.

One of the most iconic sculptures in Caracas looks like a large orange ball suspended in the air.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, there are now doubts about the structural integrity of this 5.4-mile cable-stayed bridge.

A unique ecological museum in the forests of southern Paraguay that celebrates trees through unusual sculptures, installations, and immersive experiences surrounded by nature.

In the middle of a sleepy Paraguayan village, a more than 20-meter-tall medieval castle protrudes into the air.

A beautiful museum filled with thousands of chairs.

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

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.