Places heitorcosta14 Wants to Go

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

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

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

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

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

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.

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

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

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

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

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

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

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.