Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

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

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

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

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

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

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

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

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

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

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.