Places rlaurak Wants to Go

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

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

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

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

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

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

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

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

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