Places Megalodon Wants to Go

A no-frills, DIY nature preserve manned by a U.S. expat who has dedicated his life to turtle conservation.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

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

A place of enchantment where stories of the past seem to come to life.

A beautiful, abandoned farming headquarters overtaken by nature and graffiti.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

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.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

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

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

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

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists

The southernmost postal office in South America.

This mountainside open-air museum was built from the ashes left behind by a devastating fire.