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."
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Ouro Preto, Brazil
A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cars mysteriously roll uphill on this street.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Millers Point, Australia
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Port Campbell, Australia
A clear example of the process of erosion in action.
Princetown, Australia
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Melbourne, Australia
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Castro, Chile
Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Canela, Brazil
This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.
Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.
Montevideo, Uruguay
An epic sculpture depicting a wagon and straining oxen.
Montevideo, Uruguay
The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."
Colonia Del Sacramento, Uruguay
Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.
San Diego, California
North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.