Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.

This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

A scalable map of Colombia with the bonus of a butterfly house.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.