Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

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

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.

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

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

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

Home of the "true" equator.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

This drowning bronze monument marks the spot where one of Australia's great engineers died by suicide.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.