Places Funky fresh Wants to Go

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A museum of memories in what was once one of the most violent cities in the world.

This unofficial museum details the rise and fall of Colombia's most notorious narcotrafficker, Pablo Escobar.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

The enormous appendage offers spectacular views of Colombia's Huila Department.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.