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Unusual Attractions in Venezuela

Uribante, Venezuela

The Drowned Church of Potosi

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Relampago del Catatumbo

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Gran Sabana, Venezuela

Mount Roraima

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Merida, Venezuela

Coromoto Ice Cream Shop

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

Sucre, Venezuela

Sarisarinama

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

Caracas, Venezuela

Dr. Gottfried Knoche and his mummies

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Caracas, Venezuela

The Helix

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Caracas, Venezuela

Tower of David

The world's tallest slum.

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Merida, Venezuela

Coromoto Ice Cream Shop

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Stories About Venezuela

Podcast: Relampago del Catatumbo

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

by The Podcast Team

January 17, 2022

The Last Venezuelan Glacier team examines the recently exposed areas just below the Humboldt's glacier edge in 2019, more than 15,000 feet of elevation.

Studying New Life in the Shadow of Venezuela's Last Glacier

When ice goes, lichens and mosses move in and an entirely new ecosystem starts to take shape.

by Jonathan Moens

November 18, 2021

Alternating Currents

The rise and fall of Venezuela, as seen from a Colombia border city, its grand mosque, and the migrants and converts who worship there.

by Megan Janetsky

September 29, 2019

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