Places Tinker Belle Wants to Go

The ruins of a 19th-century aqueduct run through this Brazilian island's deep forest.

A trio of waterfalls inside the world’s largest urban forest.

A secret Virgin Mary tucked away on a Brazilian beach.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

Even after multiple failed attempts to be hanged, Chaguinhas was still alive, making people believe it was a miracle.

A place of enchantment where stories of the past seem to come to life.

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This kilometer-long university building is an unexpected architectural delight.

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

Modern pyramids built to channel positive energy have also fomented local tales of animal sacrifice.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

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

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

This magnificent tree towering over the Atlantic rainforest is one of the oldest and largest in Brazil.

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

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

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.