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This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

A remarkable range of flora and fauna are represented in this Dominican nature preserve.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.