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Sofia Perpetua

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Sofia Perpetua is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NBC, CNN, Public Radio International, New York Financial Press, The Intercept Brazil, Notícias Magazine and other news outlets in the United States, Brazil and Portugal.
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National Poo Museum

Sandown, England

National Poo Museum

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Corridor with exhibits from other penitentiary houses that were closed.

São Paulo, Brazil

Museu Penitenciário Paulista

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

Museu da Tatuagem

São Paulo, Brazil

Museu da Tatuagem de São Paulo

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

Casa da Pedra Cave

Iporanga, Brazil

Gruta Casa de Pedra

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

Images of the Unconscious Museum.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Images of the Unconscious Museum

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

Insano

Aquiraz, Brazil

Insano Body Slide

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

Pomerode's German architecture on display at the Carl Weege house museum.

Pomerode, Brazil

Carl Weege Immigrant House Museum

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

Christ carrying the cross - Aleijadinho

Ouro Preto, Brazil

Museu do Aleijadinho

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs

Sousa, Brazil

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

Ricardo Brennand Institute.

Recife, Brazil

Ricardo Brennand Institute

A Tudor-style castle in Brazil holds one of the world's largest armory collections.

Erotic art.

Lima, Peru

Larco Museum's Erotic Art

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Paraty Casa de Cultura

Paraty, Brazil

Masonic Symbols of Paraty

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

Inhotim Museum

Brumadinho, Brazil

Inhotim Museum

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Largest Street Art Mural in the World

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Largest Street Art Mural in the World

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

The cinema in the Sinai Desert.
Permanently Closed

Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt

End of the World Cinema

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Entrance to the "Terra dos Gêmeos" (Land of Twins).

Cândido Godói, Brazil

Cândido Godói

The mystery of Brazil's "Land of Twins" has led to wild theories such as Nazi genetic experiments.

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