These giant yellow bowling pins seem to be defying gravity.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

Constructed on the ruins of a convent, this tower saved countless lives.

The house of a former Argentinian president stands protected within a large glass case.

A beautiful riverside mansion where the intellectual life of early-20th-century Argentina flourished.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

This neoclassic cathedral also houses what is believed to be the oldest clock in the Americas.

This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.