The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.