Places rlaurak Wants to Go

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

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

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

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

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

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

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

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

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

A former prison complex now displays a historic collection of inmate artwork.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil.

Moss-covered sculptures fill this small Brazilian gorge.

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

Enjoy fresh-baked bread and fish from a repurposed Portuguese fortress.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.