Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A shrine to a 19th-century femicide victim turned miracle worker.

This massive waterfront market is located at the "gateway to the Amazon."

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

A hidden and beautiful waterfall in middle of one of the biggest urban forests of the world.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

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

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

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

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

This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

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

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

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

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

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

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.

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

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

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