Guapán, Ecuador
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Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.
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Guapán, Ecuador
Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.
Banos, Ecuador
A swing to dangle you off the very edge.
Ecuador
This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.
Barranquilla, Colombia
This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.
Cali, Colombia
A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.
Santa Catalina, Colombia
The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.
Cartagena, Colombia
An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.
San Javier, Bolivia
This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.
Jesús de Tavarangue, Paraguay
These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.
Brasília, Brazil
A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.
Manaus, Brazil
A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.
Laranjal do Jari, Brazil
This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."
São Paulo, Brazil
The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Pernambuco, Brazil
The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.
Santo André, Brazil
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.