The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

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

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

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

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

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

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

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

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

A desert that evokes the surreal.