Places Luxye Wants to Go

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

This intriguing museum chronicles the history and impact of immigration in Brazil.

This mesmerizing statue of a child wrestling an anteater symbolizes the native culture and biodiversity of São Paulo.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

This park feels like a lush little jungle full of wildlife nestled within São Paulo.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

The building that once housed the dictator's secret police is now a museum that documents the history of an oppressive regime and those who fought against it.

Even after multiple failed attempts to be hanged, Chaguinhas was still alive, making people believe it was a miracle.

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

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

This somber statue remembers the enslaved women who were forced to nurse their owners' babies.

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

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

Hidden in plain sight, this lush garden sits atop one of the most iconic buildings in São Paulo.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

This São Paulo home became a lifelong prison for a woman with a tragic childhood.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

The craziest comic book shop in São Paulo.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.