Sur Lípez, Bolivia
Laguna Colorada
This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.
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Sur Lípez, Bolivia
This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Blumenau, Brazil
This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.
Ubatuba, Brazil
What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.
Curitiba, Brazil
Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.
Santos, Brazil
This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.
Niterói, Brazil
An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
Varginha, Brazil
This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."
Brumadinho, Brazil
The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
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.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Arica, Chile
70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.
Huara, Chile
One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.
Antofagasta Province, Chile
In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.
Chile
A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.
Palmira, Colombia
A museum showcasing the history of sugarcane with a rich history.
San Bernardo, Colombia
No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.
Tocancipá, Colombia
A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.
Ecuador
This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.