Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

This small bridge serves as a symbol of South America's independence.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.