Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escadaria Selarón Mosaic Steps
A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.
Ilha Grande, Brazil
The ruins of a 19th-century aqueduct run through this Brazilian island's deep forest.
Paraty, Brazil
This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The final resting place of the liberator of Argentina is guarded around the clock by two soldiers.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A pocket of serenity in hectic Buenos Aires, complete with a peaceful courtyard and massive library.
Santiago, Chile
A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.
Santiago, Chile
A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Santiago, Chile
This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.
Santiago, Chile
Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.
Santiago, Chile
It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.
Refugio Villarrica, Chile
One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
Panguipulli, Chile
This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Valdivia, Chile
A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.
Chonchi, Chile
A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.