Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

Located outside Medellín, this Colombian park focuses on conservation and sustainability.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

This overlooked, beautiful convent hides an original Hieronymus Bosch among its many treasures.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

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

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

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

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.