Copiapó, Chile
Museo Mineralógico (Mineralogical Museum)
One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.
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Copiapó, Chile
One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.
Frutillar, Chile
A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.
Natales, Chile
An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.
Algarrobo, Chile
A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, Brazil
This magnificent tree towering over the Atlantic rainforest is one of the oldest and largest in Brazil.
Manaus, Brazil
This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.
Blumenau, Brazil
This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cars mysteriously roll uphill on this street.
São Paulo, Brazil
A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.
São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.
São Roque de Minas, Brazil
This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.
Chaves, Brazil
Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Bolivia
Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.
Sucre, Bolivia
Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.