The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

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

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

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

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

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.