The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.