Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

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

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

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

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

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

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

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.