Places Tinker Belle Wants to Go

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

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

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

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

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.