A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

A medley of objects that represent Argentine culture, from cars to toys.

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

One of the few remnants of an extensive tram network that once made Buenos Aires the “City of Trams.”

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

This massive waterfront market is located at the "gateway to the Amazon."

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

This skyscraper once housed weapons during the revolution and was the scene of two brutal crimes that shocked São Paulo society.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The craziest comic book shop in São Paulo.

Take a ferry across the Paraíba river in one of these 1980s bus-turned-boats.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

This museum on the site of a former rubber plantation showcases the harsh conditions to which rubber tappers in the Amazon were subjected.

From pink dolphins to underwater cities, this museum explores the unseen, mythical world of the Amazon river.