This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

The mirrored section takes the shape of Hebrew characters when viewed from above.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Take a dip beneath the stalactites in this amazing cenote.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

The fighters and conspirators that won independence for Paraguay held secret meetings at this historic house.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.