Places piffeller Wants to Go

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

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

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

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.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

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

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

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.

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

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

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.