A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.