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Vernazza, Italy
Cinque Terre
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
44.1324, 9.7077
Florence, Italy
Buontalenti Grotta
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
43.7661, 11.2523
Venice, Italy
The Mad Colored Houses of Burano
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
45.4855, 12.4172
Venice, Italy
Libreria Acqua Alta
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
45.4380, 12.3423
Santa Marta, Colombia
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.
11.2282, -74.1774
Ventaquemada, Colombia
Puente de Boyacá
This small bridge serves as a symbol of South America's independence.
5.4504, -73.4303
Bogotá, Colombia
Monserrate Sanctuary
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
4.6054, -74.0555
Medellín, Colombia
Plaza Botero
Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.
6.2520, -75.5684
Guatavita, Colombia
Guatavita la Nueva
The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.
4.9359, -73.8355
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Villa de Leyva
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
5.6332, -73.5251
Bogotá, Colombia
Museo del Oro
This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.
4.6018, -74.0718
Cartagena, Colombia
Door Knockers of Cartagena
The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.
10.4265, -75.5483
Medellín, Colombia
The Gondolas of Medellín
An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.
6.3002, -75.5585
Nemocón, Colombia
Nemocón Salt Mine
Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.
5.0638, -73.8748
Verona, Italy
Juliet's Balcony
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
45.4420, 10.9986
Collodi, Italy
Pinocchio Park
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
43.8979, 10.6371
Collodi, Italy
Tallest Wooden Pinocchio in the World
The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.
43.8998, 10.6515
Pisa, Italy
Orto Botanico di Pisa (Botanical Garden of Pisa)
The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
43.7198, 10.3959
Lima, Peru
Huaca Pucllana
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
-12.1174, -77.0337
Guatape, Colombia
La Manuela Hacienda Ruins
Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.
6.2311, -75.1535
Foz do Iguaçu, Argentina
Iguazu Falls
A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.
-25.6954, -54.4370
Montreal, Québec
Insectarium of Montreal
The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.
45.5579, -73.5557
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
Middle of the World
An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.
-0.0021, -78.4558
Paris, France
Flame of Liberty
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
48.8647, 2.3014
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