Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

This color-changing crater lake in El Salvador is occasionally impenetrable to sunlight.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

An abandoned mining area now part of a gorgeous national park.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

A hidden wonder displaying insects large and small.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A museum celebrating mola textiles, the intricate art of the Guna people of Panama.

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

An old Dutch lightvessel is now stuck in a dock near the mouth of the Suriname River.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

A tree so massive it claims half the road, standing at the intersection of history and folklore.

A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.