The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

In this Brazilian city, a vertical graveyard rules the skyline.

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

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

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

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

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

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

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

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.