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This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.

The ship that got left behind.

A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

A brick arch is all that remains of this Dutch fort, once a focal point for colonial power struggles in Guyana.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

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

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

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